How to parse LinkedIn timestamp to human readable

Question

I looked at various examples on the net; however, i cannot seem to the get the LinkedIn timestamp to parse correctly.

Inpeticualy the year.

What am i missing here?

1352236307000

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                    var newDate = new Date();
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Posted Sun, 30 Aug 44820 04:23:20 GMT

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 10 '12 at 19:52

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Simple pass this in as a param to the date constructor:

new Date(1352236307000).toLocaleString()

answered Nov 10 '12 at 19:52

JAR.JAR.beans

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Is there a way for it to return with-out the [GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)] portion of Tue Nov 06 2012 15:11:47 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time) – Filling The Stack is What I DO Nov 10 '12 at 21:08
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Here is the full Javascrtip API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date , you can pretty much do anything. – JAR.JAR.beans Nov 11 '12 at 07:34
it says integer number is to long – jackyesind Jul 17 '13 at 10:46
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If you get an error with the length of the integer, try dividing the timestamp by 1000, it's in milliseconds so will not produce a valid result otherwise. – Karl M.W. Feb 15 '16 at 23:42

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 10 '12 at 19:53

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It's in milliseconds. Just divide with 1000.

answered Nov 10 '12 at 19:53

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No. It's the total milliseconds since 1/1/1970, division by 1000, would give seconds since 1/1/1970. – JAR.JAR.beans Nov 11 '12 at 07:36

How to parse LinkedIn timestamp to human readable

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