My query in JS is returning a Javascript date as a string from my database (i.e "/Date(1657756800000)/"). I need a way to first convert that into a Javascript date object and then parse/output it as a readable date string.
Currently if I strip the preceding "/Date(" and ending ")/" parts and try to just pass that number "1657756800000" into a "new Date(1657756800000)" I get an "Invalid Date" error.
How do I get around this?
Just do
var timeStamp = 1657756800000;
var yourDate = new Date(timeStamp);
console.log(yourDate.toISOString());If you are still getting errors, it is likely you are passing a string to new Date(). To fix this, just do
// your timestamp as a string
var timeStamp = '1657756800000';
// parseInt() converts numbers to strings
var yourDate = new Date(parseInt(timeStamp));
console.log(yourDate.toISOString());If you want your date formatted nicely, use toLocaleDateString and toLocaleTimeString in this function:
function printFancyTime(dateObj) {
return dateObj.toLocaleDateString() + " " + dateObj.toLocaleTimeString();
}
// your timestamp as a string
var timeStamp = '1657756800000';
// parseInt() converts numbers to strings
var yourDate = new Date(parseInt(timeStamp));
console.log(printFancyTime(yourDate));
Through an invoked function we do that:
df = (function(d) {
d = new Date(d);
return {
date: d.getDate(),
month: d.getMonth(),
year: d.getFullYear(),
hour: d.getHours(),
minute: d.getMinutes(),
second: d.getSeconds()
}
});
console.log(df(1657756800000));
output
{
date: 14,
hour: 5,
minute: 30,
month: 6,
second: 0,
year: 2022
}
new Date(parseInt('1657756800000', 10))