Convert milliseconds after midnight January 1, 1970 GMT to formatted time

[vunet.us]

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

[Torsten Robitzki]

vu******@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

[vunet.us]

On May 21, 12:19 pm, Torsten Robitzki <[e-mail]:

[e-mail] 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

[Dr J R Stockton]

In comp.lang.javascript message <11**********************@r3g2000prh.goo
glegroups.com>, Mon, 21 May 2007 09:02:37, vu******@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.

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