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So, I'm trying to analyse my Google Location History. I'm loading from the Google export file, through Power Query, into a Power Pivot data model.
The file contains the datetime of each locational fix as a integer. This integer represents the milliseconds since the epoch, which is 1970-01-01:00:00:00.
In SQL, this would be straight trivial. I'd get rid of the milliseconds, and do this:
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So, basically, I have the seconds value in the table, and I'm 'hardcoding' the epoch, but that's fine.
I'm sorry if I'm being stupid, but how on Earth do I do this in M in Power Query?

Absolutely sensational. Thanks very much Curt, I was a very long way away from working that our for myself.

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