How to get a date out of UNIX timestamp with javascript?

Question

Here's my jsfidde: http://jsfiddle.net/9SUqX/74/

Original Code:

var comments = [
    {name:"Full Name",comment:"Quote",timestamp:1332045720},
];

$(document).ready(function() {
    $("ul#feed").append("<li>\
    <blockquote>"+comments[0].comment+"</blo‌ckquote>\
    <cite>-"+comments[0].name+", "+comments[0].timestamp+" </cite>\
    </li>");
});

Answer 1

You need to multiply the timestamp by 1000 (Javascript uses milliseconds) and pass it to Date:

var comments = [
    {name:"Full Name",comment:"Quote",timestamp:1332045720},
];

$(document).ready(function() {
    var d = new Date(comments[0].timestamp * 1000);
    var date = [(d.getMonth() + 1), d.getDate(), d.getFullYear()].join("/");
    $("ul#feed").append("<li>\
    <blockquote>"+comments[0].comment+"</blo‌ckquote>\
    <cite>-"+comments[0].name+", "+date+" </cite>\
    </li>");
});