Converting JSON date(ticks) to NSDate

Question

Does anyone know how to convert a JSON date(ticks) to an NSDate in Objective-C? Can someone post some code?

Answer 1

It goes roughly like this:

// Input string is something like: "/Date(1292851800000+0100)/" where
// 1292851800000 is milliseconds since 1970 and +0100 is the timezone
NSString *inputString = [item objectForKey:@"DateTimeSession"];

// This will tell number of seconds to add according to your default timezone
// Note: if you don't care about timezone changes, just delete/comment it out
NSInteger offset = [[NSTimeZone defaultTimeZone] secondsFromGMT];

// A range of NSMakeRange(6, 10) will generate "1292851800" from "/Date(1292851800000+0100)/"
// as in example above. We crop additional three zeros, because "dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:"
// wants seconds, not milliseconds; since 1 second is equal to 1000 milliseconds, this will work.
// Note: if you don't care about timezone changes, just chop out "dateByAddingTimeInterval:offset" part
NSDate *date = [[NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:
                 [[inputString substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(6, 10)] intValue]]
                dateByAddingTimeInterval:offset];

(from https://gist.github.com/726910)