How to parse date format?

Question

In one of the webservices my application is consuming, I encountered the following DateTime format.

\"/Date(1395780377459)/\"

Is this some stand

Answer 1

It looks like a unix timestamp:

http://www.epochconverter.com/

Tue, 25 Mar 2014 20:46:17 GMT

In .NET:

var epoch = new DateTime(1970,1,1,0,0,0,0,System.DateTimeKind.Utc);
var dt = epoch.AddMilliseconds(1395780377459);

(Source: How to convert a Unix timestamp to DateTime and vice versa?)