Use Moment.js to convert Unix epoch time to human readable time

Question

I'm trying to use Moment.js to convert a Unix epoch time to a date and time. I'd also like to know how to have it formatted like below.

Tuesday, November 22, 2016 6:00 PM

Solution 1

moment.unix(yourUnixEpochTime).format('dddd, MMMM Do, YYYY h:mm:ss A')

Solution 2

From the Docs: Unix Timestamp

var day = moment.unix(1318781876); //seconds
var day = moment(1318781876406); //milliseconds

// and then:

console.log(day.format('dddd MMMM Do YYYY, h:mm:ss a'));

// "Sunday October 16th 2011, 9:17:56 am"

Solution 3

You can use .format('LLLL') for your requirement.

let result = moment(epoch).format('LLLL');

let epoch = 1562127342123;
let result = moment(epoch).format('LLLL');
console.log(result);

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Solution 4

You can use moment.unix(epochTime).

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Comments

[webnoob]

NOTE: The above is backwards, moment.unix(timestamp) is for seconds and moment(timstamp) is for milliseconds. Not the other way round as the answer describes (at least in the latest version of moment).

[Keno]

@webnoob Thanks ! , changed it.

[Arthur Tarasov]

you can also break it with with HTML, which I think is pretty cool: ...format('dddd, <br> MMMM Do, YYYY <br> h:mm:ss A')