C# strange with DateTime

Question

I got some strange result for:

Console.WriteLine(new DateTime(1296346155).ToString());

Result is:

01.01.0001 0:02:09

But it is not right!

I parsed value 1296346155 from some file. It said that it is in UTC;

Please explain;)

Thank you for help!)))

Answer 1

DateTime expects "A date and time expressed in the number of 100-nanosecond intervals that have elapsed since January 1, 0001 at 00:00:00.000 in the Gregorian calendar." (from msdn)

This question shows how you can convert a unix timestamp to a DateTime.

Answer 2

The constructor for DateTime that accept long type is expecting ticks value, not seconds or even milliseconds, and not from 1/1/1970 like in other languages.

So 1296346155 ticks is 129 seconds.