Parsing “date” field of iPhone SMS file from backup

Question

While this isn\'t a programming question per se, it IS related.

So I\'m trying to figure out how to parse the SMS DB that gets backed up from the iPhone. I\'m looking at

Answer 1

Since the backup is exported to SQLite database format, here's how to convert the number to a real date in SQLite:

select
    datetime(date + strftime('%s', '2001-01-01 00:00:00'),
       'unixepoch', 'localtime') as date,
    *
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