What format is the exp (Expiration Time) claim in a JWT

Question

I am using ADAL library to get access token for a resource. Does anyone know what format is the expiration time in ? more specifically "exp" (Expiration time

Answer 1

RFC 7519 states that the exp and iat claim values must be NumericDate values.

NumericDate is the last definition in Section 2. Terminology, and is defined as the number of seconds (not milliseconds) since Epoch:

A JSON numeric value representing the number of seconds from 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z UTC until the specified UTC date/time, ignoring leap seconds. This is equivalent to the IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition [POSIX.1] definition "Seconds Since the Epoch", in which each day is accounted for by exactly 86400 seconds, other than that non-integer values can be represented. See RFC 3339 [RFC3339] for details regarding date/times in general and UTC in particular.