DateTime Objects to NSDate/NSString in iOS

Question

I get date in this format from web service ( oData Web Service)

/Date(847065600000)

According to this ques. How to handle json DateTime returned from WCF Data Services (OData)

This is a DateTime Object. How can I convert it to a valid iOS date format?

MrTJ · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-12 07:32:59Z

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That number is a unix timestamp i.e. the seconds passed since 1970. You can convert it to NSDate with its initializer:

  NSTimeInterval timeInterval = 847065600000;
  NSDate* date = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:timeInterval];

UPDATE:

I checked your number and it seems that it is actually in milliseconds. So you should divide it by 1000 before passing to dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970: to get the correct date.

answered Jul 12, 2012 at 7:32

MrTJ

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please tell me i'm not the only one that feels like kicking microsoft in the balls. in xml dates are returned in a human-readable format, this only happens with json
– jere
Commented Aug 10, 2012 at 15:53

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