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For questions about the date parameters/values as used by the API and their format. Use this tag as well for questions about dates found in the UI of an SE site if you have a script or app that leverages those dates.
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How do I parse the dates from the API?
The date is in "Unix epoch time", as described in the API-docs, Date Formats section.
How you do the conversion depends on what language you are coding in. … Here's one way in javascript:
function unixEpochTime_TO_Date_DDMMYY (unixEpochTime, returnUTC) {
var year, month, day;
var dateObj = new Date (unixEpochTime * 1000);
if (returnUTC) { …
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API throws improper error when "date" parameters are the same
However, having the same date may not mean what you think it means. … You probably want results from 2015-02-17, 00:00 AM to 2015-02-17, 12:59 PM, but the "date" parameters are really unix epoch time, so your sample query is giving you just 2015-02-17, 00:00 AM to the nearest …
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bad_parameter when using key with todate?
From the Date Formats doc page:
For convenience when doing ad-hoc queries without a key an alternative date format is accepted: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS, where the hour, minute, and second values are optional … Applications should not ship using this date format (as all applications should ship with a key), it is provided just to ease rapid development. …