Returned Date as a string timestamp (Unix?) not sure

Question

I'm working with some videogame server data. The server returns a dictionary with past game details. One of the fields is for the date. That returned object is a string like this:

/Date(1286749014000-0700)/

I'm not exactly sure how that string translates into the date, but it should represent Sunday, October 10, 2010, 3:16 PM.

Is this a Unix timestamp? Do they usually have a suffix like -0700?

Thank you

Answer 1

The number 1286749014 stands for 10 october 2010 5:16:54 pm. So if you substract the 700 from it you should get the right date and time.

Check out the Wikipedia article on Unix time for more information on how it's made up.

Answer 2

The first part ("128674901") exactly represents "Sun, 10 Oct 2010 22:16:54 GMT" date.

In objective-c you can use something like this:

NSTimeInterval unixDate = 128674901;
NSDate *date = [NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:unixDate];

Answer 3

It looks like you have a high resolution time with timezone offset.

Answer 4

The "0700" suffix is a time zone. Which means UTC -07