C# Epoch DateTime conversion - c#

I need to work with epoch times in c# and I have created the following two extension methods to do so:
public static DateTime ToDateTime(this double epochTime)
{
return new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc).AddSeconds(epochTime);
}
public static double ToEpochTime(this DateTime dt)
{
var t = dt - new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
return t.TotalSeconds;
}
I get a failure when I run the following test:
[Fact]
public void Test_EpochTime()
{
var dateToTest = DateTime.Now;
var epoch = dateToTest.ToEpochTime();
var result = epoch.ToDateTime();
Assert.Equal(result, dateToTest);
}
The result is:
Xunit.Sdk.EqualException: 'Assert.Equal() Failure
Expected: 2020-03-02T17:43:19.1830000Z
Actual: 2020-03-02T17:43:19.1831870+00:00'
Has anyone experienced this before, where there's an issue converting between the double/DateTime?
Thanks for any pointers in advance!


A double only has enough precision to hold down to milliseconds. If you want more precision, you will have to use DateTime.Ticks which is a long. A long is an exact value, it won't change.
If you want milliseconds, then as #Magnetron points out, there are built-in methods for that. Above all, and this is general advice, if you need an exact value, don't use double or float types.


For me the solution was to change and use Ticks for greater precision (thanks #iakobski). Here's the updated extension methods:
public static DateTime ToDateTime(this long epochTime)
{
return new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0).AddTicks(epochTime);
}
public static long ToEpochTime(this DateTime dt)
{
var t = dt.ToUniversalTime() - new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0);
return t.Ticks;
}

Related

Google Directory API convert timestamp to DateTime [duplicate]

There is this example code, but then it starts talking about millisecond / nanosecond problems.
The same question is on MSDN, Seconds since the Unix epoch in C#.
This is what I've got so far:
public Double CreatedEpoch
{
get
{
DateTime epoch = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0).ToLocalTime();
TimeSpan span = (this.Created.ToLocalTime() - epoch);
return span.TotalSeconds;
}
set
{
DateTime epoch = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0).ToLocalTime();
this.Created = epoch.AddSeconds(value);
}
}

Here's what you need:
public static DateTime UnixTimeStampToDateTime( double unixTimeStamp )
{
// Unix timestamp is seconds past epoch
DateTime dateTime = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
dateTime = dateTime.AddSeconds( unixTimeStamp ).ToLocalTime();
return dateTime;
}
Or, for Java (which is different because the timestamp is in milliseconds, not seconds):
public static DateTime JavaTimeStampToDateTime( double javaTimeStamp )
{
// Java timestamp is milliseconds past epoch
DateTime dateTime = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
dateTime = dateTime.AddMilliseconds( javaTimeStamp ).ToLocalTime();
return dateTime;
}

The latest version of .NET (v4.6) has added built-in support for Unix time conversions. That includes both to and from Unix time represented by either seconds or milliseconds.
Unix time in seconds to UTC DateTimeOffset:
DateTimeOffset dateTimeOffset = DateTimeOffset.FromUnixTimeSeconds(1000);
DateTimeOffset to Unix time in seconds:
long unixTimeStampInSeconds = dateTimeOffset.ToUnixTimeSeconds();
Unix time in milliseconds to UTC DateTimeOffset:
DateTimeOffset dateTimeOffset = DateTimeOffset.FromUnixTimeMilliseconds(1000000);
DateTimeOffset to Unix time in milliseconds:
long unixTimeStampInMilliseconds = dateTimeOffset.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds();
Note: These methods convert to and from a UTC DateTimeOffset. To get a DateTime representation simply use the DateTimeOffset.UtcDateTime or DateTimeOffset.LocalDateTime properties:
DateTime dateTime = dateTimeOffset.UtcDateTime;

DateTime to UNIX timestamp:
public static double DateTimeToUnixTimestamp(DateTime dateTime)
{
return (TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTimeToUtc(dateTime) -
new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, System.DateTimeKind.Utc)).TotalSeconds;
}

From Wikipedia:
UTC does not change with a change of seasons, but local time or civil time may change if a time zone jurisdiction observes daylight saving time (summer time). For example, local time on the east coast of the United States is five hours behind UTC during winter, but four hours behind while daylight saving is observed there.
So this is my code:
TimeSpan span = (DateTime.UtcNow - new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0,DateTimeKind.Utc));
double unixTime = span.TotalSeconds;

You can use DateTimeOffset.
For example. I have a DateTime object
var dateTime1 = DateTime.Now;
If I want to convert it to the Unix time stamps, it can be achieved as follows
var unixTimeSeconds = new DateTimeOffset(dateTime1).ToUnixTimeSeconds()
If you want convert unix timeStamp to normal DateTime, you can use this code piece:
var dateTime2 = DateTimeOffset.FromUnixTimeSeconds(unixTimeSeconds).LocalDateTime;
or
var dateTime2 = DateTimeOffset.FromUnixTimeSeconds(unixTimeSeconds).UtcDateTime;
For more information please visit this link :
DateTimeOffset.ToUnixTimeSeconds Method,
DateTimeOffset.FromUnixTimeSeconds

Be careful, if you need precision higher than milliseconds!
.NET (v4.6) methods (e.g. FromUnixTimeMilliseconds) don't provide this precision.
AddSeconds and AddMilliseconds also cut off the microseconds in the double.
These versions have high precision:
Unix -> DateTime
public static DateTime UnixTimestampToDateTime(double unixTime)
{
DateTime unixStart = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, System.DateTimeKind.Utc);
long unixTimeStampInTicks = (long) (unixTime * TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond);
return new DateTime(unixStart.Ticks + unixTimeStampInTicks, System.DateTimeKind.Utc);
}
DateTime -> Unix
public static double DateTimeToUnixTimestamp(DateTime dateTime)
{
DateTime unixStart = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, System.DateTimeKind.Utc);
long unixTimeStampInTicks = (dateTime.ToUniversalTime() - unixStart).Ticks;
return (double) unixTimeStampInTicks / TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond;
}

See IdentityModel.EpochTimeExtensions
public static class EpochTimeExtensions
{
/// <summary>
/// Converts the given date value to epoch time.
/// </summary>
public static long ToEpochTime(this DateTime dateTime)
{
var date = dateTime.ToUniversalTime();
var ticks = date.Ticks - new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc).Ticks;
var ts = ticks / TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond;
return ts;
}
/// <summary>
/// Converts the given date value to epoch time.
/// </summary>
public static long ToEpochTime(this DateTimeOffset dateTime)
{
var date = dateTime.ToUniversalTime();
var ticks = date.Ticks - new DateTimeOffset(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, TimeSpan.Zero).Ticks;
var ts = ticks / TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond;
return ts;
}
/// <summary>
/// Converts the given epoch time to a <see cref="DateTime"/> with <see cref="DateTimeKind.Utc"/> kind.
/// </summary>
public static DateTime ToDateTimeFromEpoch(this long intDate)
{
var timeInTicks = intDate * TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond;
return new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc).AddTicks(timeInTicks);
}
/// <summary>
/// Converts the given epoch time to a UTC <see cref="DateTimeOffset"/>.
/// </summary>
public static DateTimeOffset ToDateTimeOffsetFromEpoch(this long intDate)
{
var timeInTicks = intDate * TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond;
return new DateTimeOffset(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, TimeSpan.Zero).AddTicks(timeInTicks);
}
}

Unix epoch is now part of DateTime class. Converting millis to DateTime is as easy as
DateTime.UnixEpoch.AddMilliseconds(millis)

To supplement ScottCher's answer, I recently found myself in the annoying scenario of having both seconds and milliseconds UNIX timestamps arbitrarily mixed together in an input data set. The following code seems to handle this well:
static readonly DateTime UnixEpoch = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
static readonly double MaxUnixSeconds = (DateTime.MaxValue - UnixEpoch).TotalSeconds;
public static DateTime UnixTimeStampToDateTime(double unixTimeStamp)
{
return unixTimeStamp > MaxUnixSeconds
? UnixEpoch.AddMilliseconds(unixTimeStamp)
: UnixEpoch.AddSeconds(unixTimeStamp);
}

Unix time conversion is new in .NET Framework 4.6.
You can now more easily convert date and time values to or from .NET Framework types and Unix time. This can be necessary, for example, when converting time values between a JavaScript client and .NET server. The following APIs have been added to the DateTimeOffset structure:
static DateTimeOffset FromUnixTimeSeconds(long seconds)
static DateTimeOffset FromUnixTimeMilliseconds(long milliseconds)
long DateTimeOffset.ToUnixTimeSeconds()
long DateTimeOffset.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds()

In C# 8.0 (.NET Core 2.1) it is a simple one liner:
DateTime.UnixEpoch.AddSeconds(unixTimeInSeconds)

var dt = DateTime.Now;
var unixTime = ((DateTimeOffset)dt).ToUnixTimeSeconds();
// 1510396991
var dt = DateTimeOffset.FromUnixTimeSeconds(1510396991);
// [11.11.2017 10:43:11 +00:00]

I found the right answer just by comparing the conversion to 1/1/1970 w/o the local time adjustment;
DateTime date = new DateTime(2011, 4, 1, 12, 0, 0, 0);
DateTime epoch = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0);
TimeSpan span = (date - epoch);
double unixTime =span.TotalSeconds;

From .net 4.6, you can do this:
var dateTime = DateTimeOffset.FromUnixTimeSeconds(unixDateTime).DateTime;

Written a simplest extension that works for us. If anyone looks for it...
public static class DateTimeExtensions
{
public static DateTime FromUnixTimeStampToDateTime(this string unixTimeStamp)
{
return DateTimeOffset.FromUnixTimeSeconds(long.Parse(unixTimeStamp)).UtcDateTime;
}
}

System.DateTimeOffset.Now.ToUnixTimeSeconds()

DateTime unixEpoch = DateTime.ParseExact("1970-01-01", "yyyy-MM-dd", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
DateTime convertedTime = unixEpoch.AddMilliseconds(unixTimeInMillisconds);
Of course, one can make unixEpoch a global static, so it only needs to appear once in your project, and one can use AddSeconds if the UNIX time is in seconds.
To go the other way:
double unixTimeInMilliseconds = timeToConvert.Subtract(unixEpoch).TotalMilliseconds;
Truncate to Int64 and/or use TotalSeconds as needed.

A Unix tick is 1 second (if I remember well), and a .NET tick is 100 nanoseconds.
If you've been encountering problems with nanoseconds, you might want to try using AddTick(10000000 * value).

I needed to convert a timeval struct (seconds, microseconds) containing UNIX time to DateTime without losing precision and haven't found an answer here so I thought I just might add mine:
DateTime _epochTime = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
private DateTime UnixTimeToDateTime(Timeval unixTime)
{
return _epochTime.AddTicks(
unixTime.Seconds * TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond +
unixTime.Microseconds * TimeSpan.TicksPerMillisecond/1000);
}

public static class UnixTime
{
private static readonly DateTime Epoch = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0);
public static DateTime UnixTimeToDateTime(double unixTimeStamp)
{
return Epoch.AddSeconds(unixTimeStamp).ToUniversalTime();
}
}
you can call UnixTime.UnixTimeToDateTime(double datetime))

For .NET 4.6 and later:
public static class UnixDateTime
{
public static DateTimeOffset FromUnixTimeSeconds(long seconds)
{
if (seconds < -62135596800L || seconds > 253402300799L)
throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("seconds", seconds, "");
return new DateTimeOffset(seconds * 10000000L + 621355968000000000L, TimeSpan.Zero);
}
public static DateTimeOffset FromUnixTimeMilliseconds(long milliseconds)
{
if (milliseconds < -62135596800000L || milliseconds > 253402300799999L)
throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("milliseconds", milliseconds, "");
return new DateTimeOffset(milliseconds * 10000L + 621355968000000000L, TimeSpan.Zero);
}
public static long ToUnixTimeSeconds(this DateTimeOffset utcDateTime)
{
return utcDateTime.Ticks / 10000000L - 62135596800L;
}
public static long ToUnixTimeMilliseconds(this DateTimeOffset utcDateTime)
{
return utcDateTime.Ticks / 10000L - 62135596800000L;
}
[Test]
public void UnixSeconds()
{
DateTime utcNow = DateTime.UtcNow;
DateTimeOffset utcNowOffset = new DateTimeOffset(utcNow);
long unixTimestampInSeconds = utcNowOffset.ToUnixTimeSeconds();
DateTimeOffset utcNowOffsetTest = UnixDateTime.FromUnixTimeSeconds(unixTimestampInSeconds);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Year, utcNowOffsetTest.Year);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Month, utcNowOffsetTest.Month);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Date, utcNowOffsetTest.Date);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Hour, utcNowOffsetTest.Hour);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Minute, utcNowOffsetTest.Minute);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Second, utcNowOffsetTest.Second);
}
[Test]
public void UnixMilliseconds()
{
DateTime utcNow = DateTime.UtcNow;
DateTimeOffset utcNowOffset = new DateTimeOffset(utcNow);
long unixTimestampInMilliseconds = utcNowOffset.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds();
DateTimeOffset utcNowOffsetTest = UnixDateTime.FromUnixTimeMilliseconds(unixTimestampInMilliseconds);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Year, utcNowOffsetTest.Year);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Month, utcNowOffsetTest.Month);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Date, utcNowOffsetTest.Date);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Hour, utcNowOffsetTest.Hour);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Minute, utcNowOffsetTest.Minute);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Second, utcNowOffsetTest.Second);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Millisecond, utcNowOffsetTest.Millisecond);
}
}

Converting UNIX time to a date from an online json [duplicate]

There is this example code, but then it starts talking about millisecond / nanosecond problems.
The same question is on MSDN, Seconds since the Unix epoch in C#.
This is what I've got so far:
public Double CreatedEpoch
{
get
{
DateTime epoch = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0).ToLocalTime();
TimeSpan span = (this.Created.ToLocalTime() - epoch);
return span.TotalSeconds;
}
set
{
DateTime epoch = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0).ToLocalTime();
this.Created = epoch.AddSeconds(value);
}
}

Here's what you need:
public static DateTime UnixTimeStampToDateTime( double unixTimeStamp )
{
// Unix timestamp is seconds past epoch
DateTime dateTime = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
dateTime = dateTime.AddSeconds( unixTimeStamp ).ToLocalTime();
return dateTime;
}
Or, for Java (which is different because the timestamp is in milliseconds, not seconds):
public static DateTime JavaTimeStampToDateTime( double javaTimeStamp )
{
// Java timestamp is milliseconds past epoch
DateTime dateTime = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
dateTime = dateTime.AddMilliseconds( javaTimeStamp ).ToLocalTime();
return dateTime;
}

The latest version of .NET (v4.6) has added built-in support for Unix time conversions. That includes both to and from Unix time represented by either seconds or milliseconds.
Unix time in seconds to UTC DateTimeOffset:
DateTimeOffset dateTimeOffset = DateTimeOffset.FromUnixTimeSeconds(1000);
DateTimeOffset to Unix time in seconds:
long unixTimeStampInSeconds = dateTimeOffset.ToUnixTimeSeconds();
Unix time in milliseconds to UTC DateTimeOffset:
DateTimeOffset dateTimeOffset = DateTimeOffset.FromUnixTimeMilliseconds(1000000);
DateTimeOffset to Unix time in milliseconds:
long unixTimeStampInMilliseconds = dateTimeOffset.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds();
Note: These methods convert to and from a UTC DateTimeOffset. To get a DateTime representation simply use the DateTimeOffset.UtcDateTime or DateTimeOffset.LocalDateTime properties:
DateTime dateTime = dateTimeOffset.UtcDateTime;

DateTime to UNIX timestamp:
public static double DateTimeToUnixTimestamp(DateTime dateTime)
{
return (TimeZoneInfo.ConvertTimeToUtc(dateTime) -
new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, System.DateTimeKind.Utc)).TotalSeconds;
}

From Wikipedia:
UTC does not change with a change of seasons, but local time or civil time may change if a time zone jurisdiction observes daylight saving time (summer time). For example, local time on the east coast of the United States is five hours behind UTC during winter, but four hours behind while daylight saving is observed there.
So this is my code:
TimeSpan span = (DateTime.UtcNow - new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0,DateTimeKind.Utc));
double unixTime = span.TotalSeconds;

You can use DateTimeOffset.
For example. I have a DateTime object
var dateTime1 = DateTime.Now;
If I want to convert it to the Unix time stamps, it can be achieved as follows
var unixTimeSeconds = new DateTimeOffset(dateTime1).ToUnixTimeSeconds()
If you want convert unix timeStamp to normal DateTime, you can use this code piece:
var dateTime2 = DateTimeOffset.FromUnixTimeSeconds(unixTimeSeconds).LocalDateTime;
or
var dateTime2 = DateTimeOffset.FromUnixTimeSeconds(unixTimeSeconds).UtcDateTime;
For more information please visit this link :
DateTimeOffset.ToUnixTimeSeconds Method,
DateTimeOffset.FromUnixTimeSeconds

Be careful, if you need precision higher than milliseconds!
.NET (v4.6) methods (e.g. FromUnixTimeMilliseconds) don't provide this precision.
AddSeconds and AddMilliseconds also cut off the microseconds in the double.
These versions have high precision:
Unix -> DateTime
public static DateTime UnixTimestampToDateTime(double unixTime)
{
DateTime unixStart = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, System.DateTimeKind.Utc);
long unixTimeStampInTicks = (long) (unixTime * TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond);
return new DateTime(unixStart.Ticks + unixTimeStampInTicks, System.DateTimeKind.Utc);
}
DateTime -> Unix
public static double DateTimeToUnixTimestamp(DateTime dateTime)
{
DateTime unixStart = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, System.DateTimeKind.Utc);
long unixTimeStampInTicks = (dateTime.ToUniversalTime() - unixStart).Ticks;
return (double) unixTimeStampInTicks / TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond;
}

See IdentityModel.EpochTimeExtensions
public static class EpochTimeExtensions
{
/// <summary>
/// Converts the given date value to epoch time.
/// </summary>
public static long ToEpochTime(this DateTime dateTime)
{
var date = dateTime.ToUniversalTime();
var ticks = date.Ticks - new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc).Ticks;
var ts = ticks / TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond;
return ts;
}
/// <summary>
/// Converts the given date value to epoch time.
/// </summary>
public static long ToEpochTime(this DateTimeOffset dateTime)
{
var date = dateTime.ToUniversalTime();
var ticks = date.Ticks - new DateTimeOffset(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, TimeSpan.Zero).Ticks;
var ts = ticks / TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond;
return ts;
}
/// <summary>
/// Converts the given epoch time to a <see cref="DateTime"/> with <see cref="DateTimeKind.Utc"/> kind.
/// </summary>
public static DateTime ToDateTimeFromEpoch(this long intDate)
{
var timeInTicks = intDate * TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond;
return new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc).AddTicks(timeInTicks);
}
/// <summary>
/// Converts the given epoch time to a UTC <see cref="DateTimeOffset"/>.
/// </summary>
public static DateTimeOffset ToDateTimeOffsetFromEpoch(this long intDate)
{
var timeInTicks = intDate * TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond;
return new DateTimeOffset(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, TimeSpan.Zero).AddTicks(timeInTicks);
}
}

Unix epoch is now part of DateTime class. Converting millis to DateTime is as easy as
DateTime.UnixEpoch.AddMilliseconds(millis)

To supplement ScottCher's answer, I recently found myself in the annoying scenario of having both seconds and milliseconds UNIX timestamps arbitrarily mixed together in an input data set. The following code seems to handle this well:
static readonly DateTime UnixEpoch = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
static readonly double MaxUnixSeconds = (DateTime.MaxValue - UnixEpoch).TotalSeconds;
public static DateTime UnixTimeStampToDateTime(double unixTimeStamp)
{
return unixTimeStamp > MaxUnixSeconds
? UnixEpoch.AddMilliseconds(unixTimeStamp)
: UnixEpoch.AddSeconds(unixTimeStamp);
}

Unix time conversion is new in .NET Framework 4.6.
You can now more easily convert date and time values to or from .NET Framework types and Unix time. This can be necessary, for example, when converting time values between a JavaScript client and .NET server. The following APIs have been added to the DateTimeOffset structure:
static DateTimeOffset FromUnixTimeSeconds(long seconds)
static DateTimeOffset FromUnixTimeMilliseconds(long milliseconds)
long DateTimeOffset.ToUnixTimeSeconds()
long DateTimeOffset.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds()

In C# 8.0 (.NET Core 2.1) it is a simple one liner:
DateTime.UnixEpoch.AddSeconds(unixTimeInSeconds)

var dt = DateTime.Now;
var unixTime = ((DateTimeOffset)dt).ToUnixTimeSeconds();
// 1510396991
var dt = DateTimeOffset.FromUnixTimeSeconds(1510396991);
// [11.11.2017 10:43:11 +00:00]

I found the right answer just by comparing the conversion to 1/1/1970 w/o the local time adjustment;
DateTime date = new DateTime(2011, 4, 1, 12, 0, 0, 0);
DateTime epoch = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0);
TimeSpan span = (date - epoch);
double unixTime =span.TotalSeconds;

From .net 4.6, you can do this:
var dateTime = DateTimeOffset.FromUnixTimeSeconds(unixDateTime).DateTime;

Written a simplest extension that works for us. If anyone looks for it...
public static class DateTimeExtensions
{
public static DateTime FromUnixTimeStampToDateTime(this string unixTimeStamp)
{
return DateTimeOffset.FromUnixTimeSeconds(long.Parse(unixTimeStamp)).UtcDateTime;
}
}

System.DateTimeOffset.Now.ToUnixTimeSeconds()

DateTime unixEpoch = DateTime.ParseExact("1970-01-01", "yyyy-MM-dd", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
DateTime convertedTime = unixEpoch.AddMilliseconds(unixTimeInMillisconds);
Of course, one can make unixEpoch a global static, so it only needs to appear once in your project, and one can use AddSeconds if the UNIX time is in seconds.
To go the other way:
double unixTimeInMilliseconds = timeToConvert.Subtract(unixEpoch).TotalMilliseconds;
Truncate to Int64 and/or use TotalSeconds as needed.

A Unix tick is 1 second (if I remember well), and a .NET tick is 100 nanoseconds.
If you've been encountering problems with nanoseconds, you might want to try using AddTick(10000000 * value).

I needed to convert a timeval struct (seconds, microseconds) containing UNIX time to DateTime without losing precision and haven't found an answer here so I thought I just might add mine:
DateTime _epochTime = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
private DateTime UnixTimeToDateTime(Timeval unixTime)
{
return _epochTime.AddTicks(
unixTime.Seconds * TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond +
unixTime.Microseconds * TimeSpan.TicksPerMillisecond/1000);
}

public static class UnixTime
{
private static readonly DateTime Epoch = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0);
public static DateTime UnixTimeToDateTime(double unixTimeStamp)
{
return Epoch.AddSeconds(unixTimeStamp).ToUniversalTime();
}
}
you can call UnixTime.UnixTimeToDateTime(double datetime))

For .NET 4.6 and later:
public static class UnixDateTime
{
public static DateTimeOffset FromUnixTimeSeconds(long seconds)
{
if (seconds < -62135596800L || seconds > 253402300799L)
throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("seconds", seconds, "");
return new DateTimeOffset(seconds * 10000000L + 621355968000000000L, TimeSpan.Zero);
}
public static DateTimeOffset FromUnixTimeMilliseconds(long milliseconds)
{
if (milliseconds < -62135596800000L || milliseconds > 253402300799999L)
throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException("milliseconds", milliseconds, "");
return new DateTimeOffset(milliseconds * 10000L + 621355968000000000L, TimeSpan.Zero);
}
public static long ToUnixTimeSeconds(this DateTimeOffset utcDateTime)
{
return utcDateTime.Ticks / 10000000L - 62135596800L;
}
public static long ToUnixTimeMilliseconds(this DateTimeOffset utcDateTime)
{
return utcDateTime.Ticks / 10000L - 62135596800000L;
}
[Test]
public void UnixSeconds()
{
DateTime utcNow = DateTime.UtcNow;
DateTimeOffset utcNowOffset = new DateTimeOffset(utcNow);
long unixTimestampInSeconds = utcNowOffset.ToUnixTimeSeconds();
DateTimeOffset utcNowOffsetTest = UnixDateTime.FromUnixTimeSeconds(unixTimestampInSeconds);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Year, utcNowOffsetTest.Year);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Month, utcNowOffsetTest.Month);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Date, utcNowOffsetTest.Date);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Hour, utcNowOffsetTest.Hour);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Minute, utcNowOffsetTest.Minute);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Second, utcNowOffsetTest.Second);
}
[Test]
public void UnixMilliseconds()
{
DateTime utcNow = DateTime.UtcNow;
DateTimeOffset utcNowOffset = new DateTimeOffset(utcNow);
long unixTimestampInMilliseconds = utcNowOffset.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds();
DateTimeOffset utcNowOffsetTest = UnixDateTime.FromUnixTimeMilliseconds(unixTimestampInMilliseconds);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Year, utcNowOffsetTest.Year);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Month, utcNowOffsetTest.Month);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Date, utcNowOffsetTest.Date);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Hour, utcNowOffsetTest.Hour);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Minute, utcNowOffsetTest.Minute);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Second, utcNowOffsetTest.Second);
Assert.AreEqual(utcNowOffset.Millisecond, utcNowOffsetTest.Millisecond);
}
}

Convert DateTime to PRTime C#

I am working in Firefox's places.sqlite file and need to convert the local DateTime to PRTime, using C#. PRTime is "a 64-bit integer representing the number of microseconds since midnight (00:00:00) 1 January 1970 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)) to a datetime."

This can be achieved with this little helper class here:
public static class TimeHelper
{
// PRTime is Int64 count of microseconds from 1970-01-01-00-00-0000
static Int64 ToPRTime(DateTime dateTime)
{
TimeSpan t = (dateTime - new DateTime(1970, 1, 1));
return Convert.ToInt64(t.TotalMilliseconds * 1000);
}
static DateTime FromPrTime(Int64 prTime)
{
var someDate = new System.DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0);
var milliSeconds = prTime / 1000;
return someDate.AddMilliseconds(milliSeconds);
}
}

C# version of Javascript Date.getTime()

What is the best way in c# to get the same result of javascript date.gettime() call?
The getTime() method returns the number of milliseconds since midnight of January 1, 1970 and the specified date.

You can use this solution:
private int GetTime()
{
var time = (DateTime.Now.ToUniversalTime() - new DateTime(1970, 1, 1));
return (int)(time.TotalMilliseconds + 0.5);
}

Since JavaScript time is with respect to UTC, I think you will need something like this:
var st = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
var t = (DateTime.Now.ToUniversalTime() - st);
// t.TotalMilliseconds
Now you can use the TotalMilliseconds property of the Timespan.

The correct implementation (assuming the current time) is as follows:
DateTime utcNow = DateTime.UtcNow;
DateTime epoch = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc);
long ts = (long)((utcNow - epoch).TotalMilliseconds);

The Java and JavaScript Date.getTime() methods return the number of milliseconds since 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT.
Since .NET
represents dates in Ticks (1 Tick = 0.1 nanoseconds or 0.0001 milliseconds) since 1 Jan 0001 00:00:00 GMT, we must use a
conversion formula where 621355968000000000 is the offset between the base dates in Ticks and 10000 the number of Ticks per
Millisecond.
Ticks = (MilliSeconds * 10000) + 621355968000000000
MilliSeconds = (Ticks - 621355968000000000) / 10000

I guess this will do the trick :)
public double MilliTimeStamp(DateTime TheDate)
{
DateTime d1 = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1);
DateTime d2 = TheDate.ToUniversalTime();
TimeSpan ts = new TimeSpan(d2.Ticks - d1.Ticks);
return ts.TotalMilliseconds;
}

(DateTime.Now - new DateTime (1970, 1, 1)).TotalMilliseconds

Now in C# you can use built-in function:
new DateTimeOffset(Your_DateTime_Variable_Here).ToUnixTimeMilliseconds()
So the sample code would be:
var dateToUse = DateTime.Now;
var javaGetTimeValue = new DateTimeOffset(dateToUse).ToUnixTimeMilliseconds()

The currently accepted answer returns an int which is incorrect. It has to be Int64 or long. This is just rewriting the correct answer provided by Matt Johnson-Pint (and edited by Adaptabi) as one line. Please accept Matt Johnson-Pint's answer. I checked it against actual javascript new Date().getTime() in the console to verify it returns the same number.
long JavascriptGetTime()
{
return (long)DateTime.UtcNow.Subtract(new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, DateTimeKind.Utc)).TotalMilliseconds;
}

Here is an extension method based off Enigma State's answer
public static Int64 GetJavascriptTimeStamp(this DateTime dt)
{
var nineteenseventy = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1);
var timeElapsed = (dt.ToUniversalTime() - nineteenseventy);
return (Int64)(timeElapsed.TotalMilliseconds + 0.5);
}
To use it for the current time:
var timeStamp = DateTime.Now.GetJavascriptTimeStamp();

private static ulong GetTime()
{
const long INIT_DATA_TICKS = 621355968000000000; // 1.1.1970 in ticks
const double ROUNDINGS_FIX = 0.5;
TimeSpan dTicks = new TimeSpan(DateTime.UtcNow.Ticks - INIT_DATA_TICKS);
return (ulong)(dTicks.TotalMilliseconds + ROUNDINGS_FIX);
}
DateTime.Now.ToUniversalTime() use intern DateTime.UtcNow

PHP mktime() and microtime() equivalent in C#

What is the equivalent of PHP mktime and microtime in C#?

Here's for mktime (you'll have to verify timezones, though):
static DateTime ConvertFromUnixTimestamp(double timestamp)
{
DateTime origin = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0);
return origin.AddSeconds(timestamp);
}
static int ConvertToUnixTimestamp(DateTime date)
{
DateTime origin = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0);
TimeSpan diff = date - origin;
return (int)diff.TotalSeconds;
}
microtime is basically the same, but you don't have to cast to int.

There are no direct equivalents, but they can easily be implemented... Since the UNIX timestamp is the number of seconds since January 1st 1970, it's easy to calculate :
public readonly DateTime UnixEpoch = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1);
// equivalent to PHP mktime :
public int GetUnixTimestamp(DateTime dt)
{
TimeSpan span = dt - UnixEpoch;
return (int)span.TotalSeconds;
}
For microtime, you can use the DateTime.Tick property (1 tick = 100 nanoseconds, so 10 ticks = 1 microsecond)

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