Javascript / Client Side Development :: Convert milliseconds after midnight January 1, 1970 GMT to formatted time


	Convert milliseconds after midnight January 1, 1970 GMT to formatted time What is the best method to convert milliseconds (after midnight January 1, 1970 GMT) to formatted time example: 972798180000 ==> 10/18/2000 14:08:11 vunet@gmail.com wrote: > What is the best method to convert milliseconds (after midnight > January 1, 1970 GMT) to formatted time > example: > 972798180000 ==> 10/18/2000 14:08:11 new Date(972798180000).toLocaleString() or in case you need that specific format: use the varius getMonth/getDate/getFullYear, etc. and compose the needed string out of this values. reagards, Torsten On May 21, 12:19 pm, Torsten Robitzki <MyFirstn@Robitzki.de> wrote: > vunet@gmail.com wrote: > > What is the best method to convert milliseconds (after midnight > > January 1, 1970 GMT) to formatted time > > example: > > 972798180000 ==> 10/18/2000 14:08:11 > new Date(972798180000).toLocaleString() > or in case you need that specific format: use the varius > getMonth/getDate/getFullYear, etc. and compose the needed string out of > this values. > reagards, > Torsten thanks In comp.lang.javascript message <1179763357.335087.148@r3g2000prh.goo glegroups.com>, Mon, 21 May 2007 09:02:37, vunet@gmail.com posted: >What is the best method to convert milliseconds (after midnight >January 1, 1970 GMT) to formatted time Conventionally, midnight is the end of the day. You mean 1970-01-01 00:00:00 GMT. >example: >972798180000 ==> 10/18/2000 14:08:11 That's not a sensible format for the Internet. The average American will want 12-hour clock time, and the rest of the world won't want FFF date field order. Convert it to YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss, which is comprehensible and unambiguous everywhere. From that number, I get 20000-10-29 05:43:00. Your value is clearly wrong, as an even multiple of 10 seconds from 1970.0 should give an even multiple of 10 seconds in hh:mm:ss notation. Then, of course, you must add UTC, GMT, or Z; or convert to local civil time. The latter is only easy if there was no significant change in the local Summer Time rules between the date/time in question and the present moment, except possibly with a combination of Vista and a non- compliant Javascript implementation. It's a good idea to read the newsgroup c.l.j and its FAQ. See below. -- (c) John Stockton, Surrey, UK. ?@merlyn.demon.co.uk Turnpike v6.05 IE 6 news:comp.lang.javascript FAQ <URL:http://www.jibbering.com/faq/index.html>. <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/js-index.htm> jscr maths, dates, sources. <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/> TP/BP/Delphi/jscr/&c, FAQ items, links.