Parsing a supposed Unix date time (with timezone info) to DateTime object

Question

I have a supposed Unix date format coming through in a json feed from a third party that looks like this:

/Date(1391741913713+1100)/

Is there any way I can parse that to a DateTime object?
I'm not convinced this is a "true" Unix dateTime object...

Looking at the accepted answer to this question: How to convert a Unix timestamp to DateTime and vice versa? The parsing method takes a double... my string contains +1100 (as well as the outder /Date()/ part)

It's not a unix timestamp integer. It's number of milliseconds since unix epoch — zerkms, Mar 05 '14 at 23:44
That's what I thought, despite the third party insisting it is.... edited question to reflect this. — Alex, Mar 05 '14 at 23:44
Well, third party has no idea what they are talking about then :-) — zerkms, Mar 05 '14 at 23:45
Ah, that looks interesting.... the regex may help me out.... let me try that — Alex, Mar 05 '14 at 23:48
To be scientifically correct: is there a definition of the "Unix timestamp"? It's by convention that we know it refers to the number of seconds since 1970. But you can express a "Unix timestamp" (meaning a timestamp showing the time elapsed since the Unix epoch) in milliseconds as well. — Sandman, Mar 08 '14 at 14:25

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 05 '14 at 23:59

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As it happens, when parsing from JSON using JSON.net, this is handled automatically

answered Mar 05 '14 at 23:59

Alex

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