Convert unix timestamp to javascript date Object

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Am working with json api that represents dates like this

"date" : "/Date(1356081900000)/"

I want to turn this into regular javascript Date.

The only way I can think of solving this problem is to do a replace on everything leaving the timestamp which I can then "convert".

This works but it just looks wrong.

My question. Can I do this in better way?

UPDATE

 unix_timestamp = jsonDate.replace('/Date(', '').replace(')/', '');

 newDate = new Date(+unix_timestamp + 1000*3600);

Did you see this other post? [Convert a Unix timestamp to time in Javascript](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/847185/convert-a-unix-timestamp-to-time-in-javascript) — Miguel-F, Dec 21 '12 at 16:53

score 13 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

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Duplicate of How to format a JSON date?.

Accepted solution was:

var date = new Date(parseInt(jsonDate.substr(6)));

edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

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answered Dec 21 '12 at 16:55

antila

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score 11 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 21 '12 at 16:53

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Try something like this:-

 var d = new Date(unix_timestamp*1000);

or

 var d = new Date([UNIX Timestamp] * 1000);

answered Dec 21 '12 at 16:53

Rahul Tripathi

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this works for me, ten a simple `return t.toLocaleDateString() + ' ' + t.toLocaleTimeString();` in my function – elporfirio Nov 18 '15 at 17:10

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 21 '12 at 16:59

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The Date constructor accepts a Unix timestamp.

function cleanDate(d) {
    return new Date(+d.replace(/\/Date\((\d+)\)\//, '$1'));
}

cleanDate("/Date(1356081900000)/"); // => Fri Dec 21 2012 04:25:00 GMT-0500 (EST)

answered Dec 21 '12 at 16:59

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Convert unix timestamp to javascript date Object

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