After searching this group I got it to work using the long class [1]
code snipit:
var Long = require('./long.js').Long;
var high = buffer.readUInt32BE(0);
var low = buffer.readUInt32BE(4);
var l = Long.fromBits(low, high);
var timestamp = l.toNumber();
[1] https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson/blob/master/lib/bson/long.js
On Thursday, June 21, 2012 8:15:05 PM UTC+1, Ben Short wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying out nodejs as a TCP server. The client server protocol is
> binary and the first value is a unsigned 64bit integer. The actual value in
> this 8 byte's is a unix epoch such as 1340304234643. The bytes are in
> network byte order/big endian.
>
> Is there anyway that I'm going to be able to read this value in nodejs?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ben
>
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