Converting milliseconds to a date (jQuery/JavaScript)
I'm a bit of a rambler, but I'll try to keep this clear -
I'm bored, so I'm working on a "shoutbox", and I'm a little confused over one thing. I want to get the time that a message is entered, and I want to make sure I'm getting the server time, or at least make sure I'm not getting the local time of the user. I know it doesn't matter, since this thing won't be used by anyone besides me, but I want to be thorough. I've looked around and tested a few things, and I think the only way to do this is to get the milliseconds since ?/?/1970 or whatever it is, since that'd be the same for everyone.
I'm doing that like so:
var time = new Date();
var time = time.getTime();
That returns a number like 1294862756114 .
Is there a way to convert 1294862756114 to a more readable date, like DD/MM/YYYY HH:MM:SS ?
So, basically, I'm looking for JavaScript's equivalent of PHP's date(); function.
var time = new Date().getTime();
var date = new Date(time);
alert(date.toString()); // Wed Jan 12 2011 12:42:46 GMT-0800 (PST)
If you want custom formatting for your date I offer a simple function for it:
var now = new Date;
console.log( now.customFormat( "#DD#/#MM#/#YYYY# #hh#:#mm#:#ss#" ) );
Here are the tokens supported:
token: description: example:
#YYYY# 4-digit year 1999
#YY# 2-digit year 99
#MMMM# full month name February
#MMM# 3-letter month name Feb
#MM# 2-digit month number 02
#M# month number 2
#DDDD# full weekday name Wednesday
#DDD# 3-letter weekday name Wed
#DD# 2-digit day number 09
#D# day number 9
#th# day ordinal suffix nd
#hhhh# 2-digit 24-based hour 17
#hhh# military/24-based hour 17
#hh# 2-digit hour 05
#h# hour 5
#mm# 2-digit minute 07
#m# minute 7
#ss# 2-digit second 09
#s# second 9
#ampm# "am" or "pm" pm
#AMPM# "AM" or "PM" PM
And here's the code:
//*** This code is copyright 2002-2016 by Gavin Kistner, !@phrogz.net
//*** It is covered under the license viewable at http://phrogz.net/JS/_ReuseLicense.txt
Date.prototype.customFormat = function(formatString){
var YYYY,YY,MMMM,MMM,MM,M,DDDD,DDD,DD,D,hhhh,hhh,hh,h,mm,m,ss,s,ampm,AMPM,dMod,th;
YY = ((YYYY=this.getFullYear())+"").slice(-2);
MM = (M=this.getMonth()+1)<10?('0'+M):M;
MMM = (MMMM=["January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December"][M-1]).substring(0,3);
DD = (D=this.getDate())<10?('0'+D):D;
DDD = (DDDD=["Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday"][this.getDay()]).substring(0,3);
th=(D>=10&&D<=20)?'th':((dMod=D%10)==1)?'st':(dMod==2)?'nd':(dMod==3)?'rd':'th';
formatString = formatString.replace("#YYYY#",YYYY).replace("#YY#",YY).replace("#MMMM#",MMMM).replace("#MMM#",MMM).replace("#MM#",MM).replace("#M#",M).replace("#DDDD#",DDDD).replace("#DDD#",DDD).replace("#DD#",DD).replace("#D#",D).replace("#th#",th);
h=(hhh=this.getHours());
if (h==0) h=24;
if (h>12) h-=12;
hh = h<10?('0'+h):h;
hhhh = hhh<10?('0'+hhh):hhh;
AMPM=(ampm=hhh<12?'am':'pm').toUpperCase();
mm=(m=this.getMinutes())<10?('0'+m):m;
ss=(s=this.getSeconds())<10?('0'+s):s;
return formatString.replace("#hhhh#",hhhh).replace("#hhh#",hhh).replace("#hh#",hh).replace("#h#",h).replace("#mm#",mm).replace("#m#",m).replace("#ss#",ss).replace("#s#",s).replace("#ampm#",ampm).replace("#AMPM#",AMPM);
};
You can simply us the Datejs library in order to convert the date to your desired format.
I've run couples of test and it works.
Below is a snippet illustrating how you can achieve that:
var d = new Date(1469433907836);
d.toLocaleString(); // expected output: "7/25/2016, 1:35:07 PM"
d.toLocaleDateString(); // expected output: "7/25/2016"
d.toDateString(); // expected output: "Mon Jul 25 2016"
d.toTimeString(); // expected output: "13:35:07 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)"
d.toLocaleTimeString(); // expected output: "1:35:07 PM"