Date format translation

January 24, 2012 1:49 PM

What is this date format and how do I tell what day/month/year it is? 1316649600000

That is the Application Date returned on a building permit for my house through the City of Houston My City Map Viewer tool.

The work was performed early November 2011, so I guess it represents late October or early November. I'm trying to figure out when the work would have been performed on other permits with these Application Dates:

1274227200000
926985600000
945820800000

posted by IanMorr to law & government (4 answers total)

Unix time http://www.epochconverter.com/
posted by jdlugo at 1:51 PM on January 24, 2012 [1 favorite]

It looks like those are milliseconds since the Unix epoch. Here's a quick converter I found.
posted by hobgadling at 1:52 PM on January 24, 2012

Excellent. Thanks.
posted by IanMorr at 2:03 PM on January 24, 2012

This is the underlying time format in JavaScript.
posted by hardcode at 1:27 AM on January 25, 2012