int unixTime = (int) (DateTime.UtcNow - new DateTime(1970, 1, 1)).TotalSeconds;
If you are trying to convert some other DateTime value to POSIX time, make sure that it is first converted to UTC.
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Get Unix Time/ POSIX Time in c#
Recently needed to convert the time into Unix format in C#. Since the Unix time format is basically a count of the seconds passed since 1/1/1970 (Unix epoch), this can be easily done using the DateTime object.
If you are trying to convert some other DateTime value to POSIX time, make sure that it is first converted to UTC.
If you are trying to convert some other DateTime value to POSIX time, make sure that it is first converted to UTC.
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