Date string import. Need professional opinion,

Question

Hi all,
First of all let me say I have exhausted my options to figure
this out. I thought I would ask for some opinions here.
I have been ask to import some data from a dat file into our
CF server that has a Date/Time string that I am not familiar with.
Has anyone ever seen this format or worked with it and have any
idea how I can decipher it. Here is an example.
DTSTART:1175254200
DTEND:1175270400
This is what I know of the date/time above.
The DTSTART:1175254200 is March 30, 2007 7:30AM
I generated this myself is how I know.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Brian

Answer 1

BLXWebMaster wrote:
> What you are looking at is refered to a epoch time
value. Typically used on
> Unix and refers to the number of milliseconds that have
elapsed since the date
> of January 1, 1970.
what you're describing is java epoch offset, unix uses
*seconds* which is what
this data appears to be.
this is fairly simple to handle:
<cfscript>
startEpoch=createdate(1970,1,1); // like it says
unixEpochOffset=1175254200; // seconds since epoch start
x=dateAdd("s",unixEpochOffset,startEpoch);
writeoutput(x);
</cfscript>