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I'm making an API callout that returns a date/time in the following format:

"Thu May 8 1:21 PM EDT"

as well as a timestamp in the following format (millis since unix epoch):

"1399569719024"

Since these are both fairly common date formats, I'm wondering if Salesforce provides functions to convert this data into values that can be stored in a datetime field, or if I'll have to write some code to convert it? Thanks for your help!

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looks like I was searching for the wrong terms earlier: searching for unix epoch conversion revealed this link:

Convert Date to milliseconds and milliseconds to Date

As well as this:

http://www.codetalks.in/2013/08/salesforce-apex-unix-time-stamp-datetime.html

EDIT: Oh, also, here's the documentation of the method that works directly with Unix millisecond timestamps

datetime.newInstance(Long)

Constructs a Datetime and initializes it to represent the specified number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT.

https://www.salesforce.com/us/developer/docs/apexcode/Content/apex_methods_system_datetime.htm

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