Timestamp Conversion

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I was looking for a function that converts standard unix millis to a timestamp. I came across datevalue() but that is based on an Appian epoch of 1/1/2035 instead of 1/1/1970. Short of figuring out the number of milliseconds between those two dates and subtracting the difference, is there some other way to get that time stamp? 

Also, while on the subject, why did Appian choose to base their epoch on some time in the future? 

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