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mheavers
mheavers

Reputation: 30158

Can't convert unix epoch / timestamp to proper time

I am getting timestamps for estimated bus arrival times from an API as a timestamp / epoch: 1536589019000. If I go to a website like this I get the appropriate format:

Monday, September 10, 2018 7:16:59 AM

But if I attempt to convert the date in javascript, for example, with momentjs, I get some date far into the future: 50662-08-08 08:03

moment.unix(estimatedArrivalTime).format("YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm")

How do I convert a unix timestamp properly?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 615

Answers (2)

Geert-Jan
Geert-Jan

Reputation: 18895

You're getting a timestamp in millesconds instead of seconds. Just passing it like so should work: moment(1536589019000).format("YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm")

Upvotes: 0

ashish singh
ashish singh

Reputation: 6904

divide the time by thousand , moment.unix() expects time to be in seconds

moment.unix(1536589019).format("YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm")

Upvotes: 2

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