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Create a date column by adding milliseconds to previous date column

Hi there!   I am trying to convert some date data that is in a strange format e.g. /Date(1586417537437+0000)/) - i believe this is Microsoft .netJSON or something like that   Basically, the conve...
  • edhans's avatar
    5 years ago

    That is Unix Epoch time I believe, and that timestamp above is from April 9, 2020. You should ignore that +0000. Never convert Unix time with time zones. Always leave it at GMT, then convert it to your local time zone after you have converted it to the normal date/time in the GMT time zone. I explain this in my blog post where I show you how to handle this in Power Query. Let me know if you have any questions.