Dates returned by NugetV2 API in JSON

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  a.m_8178 last edited by
  
  

  Hi,

  On calling

  myprogetserver/nuget/feed/Packages()&$format=json

  I'm getting back some really weird dates, e.g.

  /Date(636650168208570000+0)/

  This should evaluate to 19 Jun 2018 2:53:40 PM
  Is this a bug? If not, how do you convert this value back to a real datetime?

  Product: ProGet
  Version: 4.7.1

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  Dean last edited by
  
  

  This is actually an artifact of the OData specification from when ProGet was first developed - that was actually the preferred format specified, and NuGet.org didn't support $format=json, so we just followed the OData spec.

  Anyway, those are just .NET DateTime Ticks in there (and the +0 just indicates UTC), so in your example it would just be:

  new DateTime(636650168208570000, DateTimeKind.Utc)
  

  Of course, if we had it to do over again, it would be something more sensible like ISO-8601.

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