Deserialize Sendbird message CreatedAt data

Question

I am trying to get the dates of the message send date in String format from sendbird messages, but don't know how to deserialize the messages.

currently I am just getting a mess of numbers like follows:

1506267806611

I currently store the serialized date in the variable below, but can't figure out what's needed to deserialize in swift 3

var msgDate = userMessage.createdAt

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 28 '17 at 14:52

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That's a timestamp. You can convert it to a date using

Date(timeIntervalSince1970: msgDate)

answered Sep 28 '17 at 14:52

Bruno Rocha

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What is the first section of the date returned? `49701-09-23 04:03:31 +0000` – Drew Sep 28 '17 at 15:06
At first glance it appeared to be a Timestamp, so in this case I think it would be better to look into Sendbird's documentation to see what format the dates are in. – Bruno Rocha Sep 28 '17 at 15:24
for this case the answer sufficed, as I am parsing the string and dropping the year anyway. As long as I got the month, day and time I am all set. I was just curious – Drew Sep 28 '17 at 15:30

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 05 '19 at 21:14

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You should divide it by 1000 to change it to seconds not milliseconds, so it will be like:

let msgDate = Date.init(timeIntervalSince1970: TimeInterval(userMessage.createdAt) / 1000 )

edited Sep 05 '19 at 21:14

Andrew Regan

answered Sep 05 '19 at 19:56

Rasheed

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