Parsing UNIX timestamps with VB.NET

[Mitchell Vincent]

Would anyone happen to have any idea how to get a UNIX timestamp (AKA
epoch, or number of seconds since Jan 1st 1970) into a VB.NET datetime
type? I have a legacy application I'm trying to port and all the dates
and times are stored in the UNIX format..

Thanks!

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- Mitchell Vincent

[rawCoder]

Just add seconds in the epoch date

dim dt as Date = #1/1/1970#.AddSeconds(10327314*19)
or
dim dt as Date = new System.DateTime (1970,1,1).AddSeconds(10327314*19)

P.S.where 10327314*19 is the epoch seconds
P.S.code not compiled

HTH
rawCoder

[Tom Shelton]

In article <Ol**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>, Mitchell Vincent wrote:

Would anyone happen to have any idea how to get a UNIX timestamp (AKA
epoch, or number of seconds since Jan 1st 1970) into a VB.NET datetime
type? I have a legacy application I'm trying to port and all the dates
and times are stored in the UNIX format..

Thanks!

--
- Mitchell Vincent

So, your dates are stored as seconds since the epoch? Then you should
be able to do something like:

Private ReadOnly EPOCH As Date = New Date (1970, 1, 1)

Dim theDate As Date = EPOCH.AddSeconds (SecondsSinceEpoch)

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Tom Shelton [MVP]

[Mitchell Vincent]

Tom Shelton wrote:

In article <Ol**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>, Mitchell Vincent wrote:

Would anyone happen to have any idea how to get a UNIX timestamp (AKA
epoch, or number of seconds since Jan 1st 1970) into a VB.NET datetime
type? I have a legacy application I'm trying to port and all the dates
and times are stored in the UNIX format..

Thanks!

--
- Mitchell Vincent

So, your dates are stored as seconds since the epoch? Then you should
be able to do something like:

Private ReadOnly EPOCH As Date = New Date (1970, 1, 1)

Dim theDate As Date = EPOCH.AddSeconds (SecondsSinceEpoch)

Doh. Now why didn't I think about that..

Thanks guys!!!

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- Mitchell