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at January 12, 2010 18:57 by pckujawa
Initial Code 
private static readonly DateTime UnixEpoch = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1);
        const double MicrosecondsInAMillisecond = 1e3;

        public static ulong ToHawkTime(this DateTime value)
        {
            double d = (value - UnixEpoch).TotalMilliseconds * MicrosecondsInAMillisecond;
            return (ulong) d;
        }

        public static DateTime ConvertFromHawkTime(this ulong value)
        {
            DateTime d = UnixEpoch + TimeSpan.FromMilliseconds(value/MicrosecondsInAMillisecond);
            return d;
        }
Initial URL 
http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2004/03/20/93332.aspx
Initial Description 
Tentative source shows conversion to/from microseconds.
Initial Title 
Working with Unix epoch in .NET (changing between DateTime and time since epoch)
Initial Tags 
date
Initial Language 
C#