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I am currently developing an application for Windows Vista/Seven to manage digital recordings of my favourite TV shows. For the most part, I've nailed down the XML parsing, with one exception:

the "lastupdated" field within the XML returned by GetSeries.php. Is this nothing more than a simple Integer value, or is there some form of encoding involved within the binary structure of this field?

In essense, what I'm asking for is whether or not it is possible to convert the value of "lastupdated" into a Date/Time (TDateTime type in Delphi 2010)?

Looking at that value, is suspect it is a unix timestamp. (number of seconds since 1/1/1970) not 100% sure though but I'd say it's a safe bet.

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Thanks

Epoch seconds?

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MAL | trakt

It's just a standard mySQL timestamp which I think is the same as a unix timestamp(Edit: It is). I don't know Delphi but it should have a function that can parse it just fine I'd be shocked if it didn't TBH.

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thanks for the information. I'll investigate converting the value from a Unix timestampe into a TDateTime value, and see if that works.

I'll post back if I need more info.

Really, thanks to all who replied to my query. It put me in the right direction towards a solution.

I discovered the following functions (any other Delphi developers here are welcome to copy can paste the code for their own use):



So I changed my code from this:


to this:


and my Properties Form now gives me a more "user friendly" display of the "lastupdated" field.