How to change utc Date in a normal Date

[User 11883281]

1448281492 is an Utc-Date (as a decimal?) now i will get these date as a date of my time zone. Can you may help me?

[Sascha Lefevre]

Member 11916735 wrote:

1448281492 is an Utc-Date (as a decimal?)

It's probably the number of ticks. See this DateTime-constructor: DateTime Constructor (Int64, DateTimeKind) (System)[^]

Member 11916735 wrote:

now i will get these date as a date of my time zone

You can either use DateTime.ToLocalTime()[^] or TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTimeFromUtc(..)[^]. For further reading on the topic, see Converting Times Between Time Zones[^].

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[Lost User]

If those are the number of ticks, then it would be januari the first of your epoch year :)

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[Midi_Mick]

You need to know what the number is. Its possible that the number is the number of ticks, and if so, see the answers above. It could also be a Unix timestamp or a Julian Day number, in which case see my tip here[^]

[John Torjo]

Where is this data coming from? It might actually be a C++ time_t date (seconds since midnight 1970). Best, John

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[User 11883281]

THANKS! I get it! item.CreationDate is a value from a database: it's the utcDate so now I have this code:

string einstellDatumTemp = item.creationDate.ToString();
int unixTimestamp = int.Parse(einstellDatumTemp);
DateTime unixYear0 = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1);
long unixTimeStampInTicks = unixTimestamp * TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond;
DateTime dtUnix = new DateTime(unixYear0.Ticks + unixTimeStampInTicks);

[Lost User]

The number looks to me like a standard Windows Time value and equates to the UTC time 12:24:52 Mon Nov 23 2015. You can use any of the standard .NET DateTime methods to display it as local time, according to your timezone.

[jschell]

Member 11916735 wrote:

as a date of my time zone.

Better be very sure that it is your time zone. Good to go if that number is being generated by your computer. But if is coming from another source (computer, database, etc) then you need to determine that.

[jschell]

Sascha Lefèvre wrote:

DateTime-

Keep in mind that unfortunately, DateTime, ignores time zone. One should not confuse that with, for example, assuming that it is the same as UTC, because that would be wrong. One should strive to use DateTimeOffset instead.