Proper way to format date from database using javascript/jquery

Question

I am calling my database which contains a datetime datatype. The date looks like this:

2005-05-23 16:06:00.000

I would like to display this in a table when a

Answer 1

The other alternative is to return the formatted string from the controller action. You could even leave the timestamp and return a second field as "Formatted Timestamp" or something similar.

var listFromDb = ...
return new Json(listFromDb.Select(itemFromDb => new List { new 
     { Date = itemFromDb.Date, FormattedDate = FormatDate(itemFromDb.Date), ...}