How to convert timestamp to readable date/time?

Question

I have an API result giving out timestamp like this 1447804800000. How do I convert this to a readable format using Javascript/jQuery?

Solution 1

You can convert this to a readable date using new Date() method

if you have a specific date stamp, you can get the corresponding date time format by the following method

var date = new Date(timeStamp);

in your case

var date = new Date(1447804800000);

this will return

Wed Nov 18 2015 05:30:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)

Solution 2

Call This function and pass your date :

JS :

function getDateFormat(date) {
var d = new Date(date),
        month = '' + (d.getMonth() + 1),
        day = '' + d.getDate(),
        year = d.getFullYear();

if (month.length < 2)
    month = '0' + month;
if (day.length < 2)
    day = '0' + day;
var date = new Date();
date.toLocaleDateString();

return [day, month, year].join('-');
}
;

Solution 3

In my case, the REST API returned timestamp with decimal. Below code snippet example worked for me.

var ts= 1551246342.000100; // say this is the format for decimal timestamp.
var dt = new Date(ts * 1000);
alert(dt.toLocaleString()); // 2/27/2019, 12:45:42 AM this for displayed

Comments

[Admin]

var x = new Date(1447804800000); Returns: Wed Nov 18 2015 11:00:00

[Pramod Karandikar]

Possible duplicate of How to convert milliseconds into a readable date?

[Kunal Gadhia]

did you get the expected output?

[Kemat Rochi]

@KunalGadhia - Yeah now it works great. Thanks for sharing that function :)

[Kemat Rochi]

@KunalGadhia - Do you also know how to do it backwards? Like, given Wed Nov 18 2015 05:30:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time) and covert it to 1447804800000 ??

[Kemat Rochi]

Do you also know how to do it backwards? Like, given Wed Nov 18 2015 05:30:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time) and covert it to 1447804800000 ??

[Nitheesh]

Javascript does not provides any inbuilt method for reverse conversion of date to date time stamp. We may need to write a custom method for this purpose.