Javascript Date from milliseconds and timezone

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Parsing Date from webservice

Sorry if this question has already been asked. I have look around but have been unable to find one. Is there a quick and convenient way to convert a "json" date into a human friendly format using only javascript and jQuery (excluding additional jQuerylibraries)?

The date is format is the following:

creationDate: "/Date(1346713200000+0100)/"

Thanks

there's no such thing as a *json date*. You'll need to just strip out the additional non-digit (except `+`) chars and create a date in javascript. See this question for help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11024367/parsing-date-from-webservice — ahren, Nov 28 '12 at 21:33
yep >var d = new Date(1346713200000+0100) >d Mon Sep 03 2012 19:00:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) — VoronoiPotato, Nov 28 '12 at 21:53
@Ahren: Is it not a given that "json" date was meant as a Javascript date? (Acronym.. JSON!).. I am just curious, what would you call it? — , Dec 21 '12 at 13:05

Bergi · Answer 1 · 2012-11-30T00:49:15.733

> var maybeDateString = "/Date(1346713200000+0100)/";
> fromDateString(maybeDateString)
Tue Sep 04 2012 02:00:00 GMT+0200

function fromDateString(str) {
    var res = str.match(/\/Date\((\d+)(?:([+-])(\d\d)(\d\d))?\)\//);
    if (res == null)
        return new Date(NaN); // or something that indicates it was not a DateString
    var time = parseInt(res[1], 10);
    if (res[2] && res[3] && res[4]) {
        var dir = res[2] == "+" ? -1 : 1,
            h = parseInt(res[3], 10),
            m = parseInt(res[4], 10);
        time += dir * (h*60+m) * 60000;
    }
    return new Date(time);
}

Javascript Date from milliseconds and timezone

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