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Read-Only Property (As Double )

DoubleValue = aDateTime.SecondsFrom1970

New in 2019r2

Supported for all project types and targets.

The number of seconds since the first 1 January 1970, 00:00 GMT.

Notes

This value is also referred to as the Unix epoch, Unix time or Unix timestamp.

You can save this value (in a file or database, for example) and use a Constructor to create a new Date instance for it. Negative values indicate seconds before 1 January 1970, 00:00 GMT.

Sample Code

Get the seconds since 1970 and use it to create a new date:

Var d1 As DateTime = DateTime.Now
Var seconds As Double = d1.SecondsFrom1970
Var d2 As New DateTime(seconds, TimeZone.Current)
// Both d1 and d2 have the same date value

Calculate the number of days between two dates:

Var d1 As New DateTime(2018, 8, 1, TimeZone.Current)
Var d2 As New DateTime(2015, 3, 1, TimeZone.Current)
// Subtract seconds and convert seconds to days
Var days As Double = (d1.SecondsFrom1970 - d2.SecondsFrom1970) / (24 * 60 * 60)