For example, checking the microphone usage in Discord, my key Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\CapabilityAccessManager\ConsentStore\microphone\NonPackaged\C:#Users#MyName#AppData#Local#Discord#app-1.0.9152#Discord.exe\LastUsedTimeStart
has the value 133665343051866208 and was updated just a few minutes ago (current unix timestamp 1722060933). That number is way too big to be seconds, and it starts with 13
instead of 17
, so it's not related to epoc time. They're clearly chronological, as they keep incrementing, roughly at a rate of 10 million per second. What does that number represent, exactly? How can I use that value to answer the question "How long ago did the microphone start?"
The value you have encountered is also a date format but in a different format: the number of 100 nanosecond intervals since Jan 1st 1601
Using an online converter that supports this format you get
133665343051866208 = Saturday, 27. July 2024 06:11:45