How do you convert epoch time in C#?

Question

How do you convert Unix epoch time into real time in C#? (Epoch beginning 1/1/1970)

Answer 1

If you want better performance you can use this version.

public const long UnixEpochTicks = 621355968000000000;
public const long TicksPerMillisecond = 10000;
public const long TicksPerSecond = TicksPerMillisecond * 1000;

//[MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.AggressiveInlining)]
public static DateTime FromUnixTimestamp(this long unixTime)
{
    return new DateTime(UnixEpochTicks + unixTime * TicksPerSecond);
}

From a quick benchmark (BenchmarkDotNet) under net471 I get this number:

        Method |     Mean |     Error |    StdDev | Scaled |
-------------- |---------:|----------:|----------:|-------:|
         LukeH | 5.897 ns | 0.0897 ns | 0.0795 ns |   1.00 |
      MyCustom | 3.176 ns | 0.0573 ns | 0.0536 ns |   0.54 |

2x faster against LukeH's version (if the performance mater)

This is similar to how DateTime internally work.