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James Jeffery
James Jeffery

Reputation: 2101

13 Character Timestamp

I'm trying to create a 13 character timestamp within my application but after searching online I am at a loss.

Are these 13 character timestamps special types of timestamps? And how can one generate them?

Here is an example timestamp: 1330650156663

Upvotes: 4

Views: 10552

Answers (4)

Louis Ricci
Louis Ricci

Reputation: 21086

DateTime.Now.Ticks.ToString()

You probably want something like that, though you'd have to use a string operation to get it to 13 characters if it isn't already.

Upvotes: 0

scibuff
scibuff

Reputation: 13755

You need milliseconds (instead of just second)

 TimeSpan t = (DateTime.UtcNow - new DateTime(1970, 1, 1));
 long timestamp  = (long ) t.TotalMilliseconds;
 Console.WriteLine (timestamp);

Upvotes: 1

Andre Loker
Andre Loker

Reputation: 8408

It's the number of milliseconds since 1/1/1970 00:00 (unix epoche)

        long timestamp = (long)(DateTime.UtcNow - new DateTime(1970, 1, 1)).TotalMilliseconds;
        Console.WriteLine(timestamp);

Upvotes: 4

paxdiablo
paxdiablo

Reputation: 881133

Thirteen-character timestamps are generally UNIX timestamps with a millisecond precision.

For example, 1330650156 (without the 663 milliseconds at the end) is 02 Mar 2012 01:02:36 UTC (see http://www.epochconverter.com/).

Upvotes: 1

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