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sohan
sohan

Reputation: 597

How to convert a millisecond in a readable date format in javascript

I am trying to convert milliseconds (which i am getting from an api which returns JSN data) to a readable date format. The sample code is below - 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>


<p id="demo"></p>

<script>
    var d = new Date(Number("1429894800"));
    document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = d.toString();
</script>

</body>
</html>

It returns - Sat Jan 17 1970 07:11:34 GMT-0600 (CST). But it should be the current date time. How to do the conversion?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 55

Answers (1)

Kivak Wolf
Kivak Wolf

Reputation: 870

If you want, approximately, the time "now" you would need to use:

var d = new Date(1429894800000);

(Notice I removed the Number("...") because you don't need to convert a string to a number when you can just use a number.)

which outputs, for me:

Date {Fri Apr 24 2015 13:00:00 GMT-0400 (EDT)}

But a better way to determine "now" is using:

Date.now();

For lots more information, go to a handy dandy page on the Date class here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date

Upvotes: 2

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