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

Bohemian♦ is right, but there's a little typo in his answer:

use %S (capitals) instead of %s, since the time is represented in seconds since 2001 and not 1970!

Doc from https://www.sqlite.org/lang_datefunc.html

%s      seconds since 1970-01-01
%S      seconds: 00-59

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