How Are dates stored in Collections

[samuelJ]

Hi How are dates stored in collections?

I have stored a date in a collection and looking at the collection i see this long sting.  What does it represent?

[mdevaney · Accepted solution]

@samuelJ 
That date looks like it is being stored in UNIX time.  For example, if you put this code in the Text property of a label

Text(1588921200000,"[$-en-US]mmmm d, yyyy")

The result will be

May 8, 2020

I only see dates stored in collections like this when the datasource was originally SQL

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