Dates returned by NugetV2 API in JSON

[a.m_8178]

Hi,

On calling

myprogetserver/nuget/feed/Packages()&$format=json

I'm getting back some really weird dates, e.g.

/Date(636650168208570000+0)/

This should evaluate to 19 Jun 2018 2:53:40 PM
Is this a bug? If not, how do you convert this value back to a real datetime?

Product: ProGet
Version: 4.7.1

[Dean]

This is actually an artifact of the OData specification from when ProGet was first developed - that was actually the preferred format specified, and NuGet.org didn't support $format=json, so we just followed the OData spec.

Anyway, those are just .NET DateTime Ticks in there (and the +0 just indicates UTC), so in your example it would just be:

new DateTime(636650168208570000, DateTimeKind.Utc)

Of course, if we had it to do over again, it would be something more sensible like ISO-8601.