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?

Answer 1

That number is a unix timestamp ie 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.