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 date in mac is calculated from 2001 and not 1970, we have to add some extra to this mac date.

978307200000 is equivalent to milliseconds until 2001-01-01

Also multiplying by 1000 is required to convert to milli-seconds.

macDate * 1000 + 978307200000