how to parse milliseconds into date in javascript

Question

i am getting stucked to convert date from ms (receiving from json) i was recieving the date in json in format below

/Date(1355250600000)/

so that i converted it into ms --->

var d = response.ContributionsDate.replace("/", "").replace("/", "").replace("Date(", "").replace(")", "");

so now its d = 1355250600000

to convert i tried the code below--->

            var date = new Date(d);
            alert(date);

but did not work (invalid date), if anyone have any idea about date parsing, help me

What date should it represent? That timestamp could be Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:30:00 GMT. — Mike Samuel, May 21 '13 at 06:57
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1056728/formatting-a-date-in-javascript — Mike Samuel, May 21 '13 at 13:35

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered May 21 '13 at 06:58

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d is a string, not a number.

Try

var date = new Date(+d);

instead.

The prefix + causes coercion to a number.

Incidentally, you can simplify your replace operations to

var d = +response.ContributionsDate.match(/^\/Date\((\d+)\)\/$/)[0];

answered May 21 '13 at 06:58

Mike Samuel

thanks @Mike Samuel, its working now, one more thing. how to format it into `MM-dd-yyyy` ? – Ashok Damani May 21 '13 at 07:06

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