Different ways to Convert Unix Timestamp into date and time in javascript
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- Sep 20, 2023
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Unix timestamp is a long number, the number of milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC
console.log(Date.now()); //1641894862442
It is a long number also called UNIX timestamp, How do you convert this number to date and time format?
Input Unix timestamp is a long number and an example is 1641895275360 The output Date format is MM/DD/YYYY and the time format is HH:MM: SS.
How to convert Unix timestamp to date and time
There are multiple ways we can convert Unix timestamps.
- use the toLocaleDateString method to convert timestamp to Date
First, create a Date object with a Unix timestamp, and call toLocaleDateString
with Local information.
timestamp = 1641895275360;
var todayDate = new Date(timestamp).toLocaleDateString("en-US");
console.log(todayDate);
Output:
1 / 11 / 2022;
- use the toLocaleTimeString method to convert timestamp to time
The toLocaleTimeString()
method takes local and converts to time format.
timestamp = 1641895275360;
var todayTime = new Date(timestamp).toLocaleTimeString("en-US");
console.log(todayTime);
Output:
10:01:15 AM
- momentJS to convert Current timestamp to Date and time
momentJS is a javascript library that provides utility functions to manipulate date and time-related data.
var timestamp = moment.unix(1341895271360);
console.log(timestamp.format("hh:mm:ss"));
Output:
"11:59:20"
const date = moment(1341895271360).format("L");
console.log(date); // 4/17/2020
Output:
"07/10/2012"
- use Inbuilt Date functions
This is a way of manually getting the Date and time For retrieving the Date object, used the getFullYear(),getMonth(), and getDate() methods from the Date object. getHours(),getMinutes(), getSeconds() method uses to return time
Here is an example.
function getDate(timestamp) {
var date = new Date(timestamp);
var year = date.getFullYear();
var month = ("0" + (date.getMonth() + 1)).substr(-2);
var day = ("0" + date.getDate()).substr(-2);
return year + "-" + month + "-" + day;
}
function getTime(timestamp) {
var date = new Date(timestamp);
var hour = ("0" + date.getHours()).substr(-2);
var minutes = ("0" + date.getMinutes()).substr(-2);
var seconds = ("0" + date.getSeconds()).substr(-2);
return hour + ":" + minutes + ":" + seconds;
}
console.log(getDate(1641895271360));
console.log(getTime(1641895271360));
Output:
"2022-01-11"
"15:31:11"
Conclusion
Learned multiple ways to convert timestamp or epoch time to Date and time
- toLocaleDateString and toLocaleTimeString
- momentJS
- Inbuilt Date functions