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Reputation: 51

get UTC timestamp from formated date - javascript

I have a UTC date string -> 10/30/2014 10:37:54 AM

How do I get the timestamp for this UTC date? As far as I know, following is handling this as my local time

var d = new Date("10/30/2014 10:37:54 AM");
return d.getTime();

Thank you

Upvotes: 1

Views: 972

Answers (6)

Adi Darachi
Adi Darachi

Reputation: 2175

You can decrease the "TimezoneOffset"

var d = new Date("10/30/2014 10:37:54 AM");
return d.getTime() - (d.getTimezoneOffset() *1000 * 60);

Also u can use the UTC function

var d = new Date("10/30/2014 10:37:54 AM");
return Date.UTC(d.getFullYear(),d.getMonth()+1,d.getDate(),d.getHours(),d.getMinutes(),d.getSeconds());

Upvotes: 1

Rajesh
Rajesh

Reputation: 24915

You can use Date.UTC to create a UTC format date object.

Reference:

(function() {
  var d = new Date();
  var d1 = new Date(Date.UTC(d.getFullYear(), d.getMonth(), d.getDate(), d.getHours(), d.getMinutes(), d.getSeconds()));

  console.log(+d);
  console.log(+d1);
})()

Upvotes: 2

krpa
krpa

Reputation: 104

Hope this helps:

Date date= new Date();
  SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");
  SimpleDateFormat sdf2 = new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss");

    date = sdf.parse(date.toString());
    String timestamp = sdf2.format(date);

Upvotes: 0

Davide Ungari
Davide Ungari

Reputation: 1960

If the format is fixed, you could easly parse it and use the Date.UTC() API.

Upvotes: 1

Mario Shtika
Mario Shtika

Reputation: 1476

Try Date.parse

var d = new Date("10/30/2014 10:37:54 AM");
var timstamp = Date.parse(d) / 1000;

Upvotes: 0

caffeinated.tech
caffeinated.tech

Reputation: 6548

A quick hack would be to append UTC to the end of your string before parsing: 

var d = new Date("10/30/2014 10:37:54 AM UTC");

But I would advise you to use a library like moment.js, it makes parsing dates much easier

Upvotes: 0

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