formatting time

[Ike]

If I have an integer, like :
1078349279

representing seconds since the "epoch" (jan 1, 1970) is there a means in
javascript to format that into the date and time? Thank you. Ike

[Andrew Urquhart]

Ike wrote:

If I have an integer, like :
1078349279

representing seconds since the "epoch" (jan 1, 1970) is there a means
in javascript to format that into the date and time? Thank you. Ike

var objDate = new Date(1078349279);
var strDate = objDate.toUTCString();

You have a plethora of methods available, just search for a list.
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[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <Iq*****************@newsfe3-win.server.ntli.net>, seen
in news:comp.lang.javascript, Andrew Urquhart <re***@website.in.sig>
posted at Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:51:10 :-

Ike wrote:

If I have an integer, like :
1078349279

representing seconds since the "epoch" (jan 1, 1970) is there a means
in javascript to format that into the date and time? Thank you. Ike

var objDate = new Date(1078349279);
var strDate = objDate.toUTCString();

That does assume that *his* epoch is GMT, which is no more than very
probable. It also omits the factor of 1000 that is probably required.

new Date(1078349279) -> Tue Jan 13 11:32:29 UTC 1970
new Date(1078349279000) -> Wed Mar 3 21:27:59 UTC 2004

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[John G Harris]

In article <Iq*****************@newsfe3-win.server.ntli.net>, Andrew
Urquhart <re***@website.in.sig> writes

Ike wrote:

If I have an integer, like :
1078349279

representing seconds since the "epoch" (jan 1, 1970) is there a means
in javascript to format that into the date and time? Thank you. Ike
var objDate = new Date(1078349279);

!var strDate = objDate.toUTCString();

You have a plethora of methods available, just search for a list.

Times 1000. Dates hold the number of milliseconds, not the number of
seconds.

John
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[Andrew Urquhart]

John G Harris wrote:

Times 1000. Dates hold the number of milliseconds, not the number of
seconds.

Indeed, thanks John and John
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