Convert a Unix timestamp to time in JavaScript

Question

I am storing time in a MySQL database as a Unix timestamp and that gets sent to some JavaScript code. How would I get just the time out of it?

For example, in HH/MM/

Answer 1

Shortest

(new Date(ts*1000)+'').slice(16,24)

let ts = 1549312452;
let time = (new Date(ts*1000)+'').slice(16,24);

console.log(time);

Answer 2

I'm partial to Jacob Wright's Date.format() library, which implements JavaScript date formatting in the style of PHP's date() function.

new Date(unix_timestamp * 1000).format('h:i:s')

Answer 3

Using Moment.js, you can get time and date like this:

var dateTimeString = moment(1439198499).format("DD-MM-YYYY HH:mm:ss");

And you can get only time using this:

var timeString = moment(1439198499).format("HH:mm:ss");

Answer 4

function getDateTime(unixTimeStamp) {

    var d = new Date(unixTimeStamp);
    var h = (d.getHours().toString().length == 1) ? ('0' + d.getHours()) : d.getHours();
    var m = (d.getMinutes().toString().length == 1) ? ('0' + d.getMinutes()) : d.getMinutes();
    var s = (d.getSeconds().toString().length == 1) ? ('0' + d.getSeconds()) : d.getSeconds();

    var time = h + '/' + m + '/' + s;

    return time;
}

var myTime = getDateTime(1435986900000);
console.log(myTime); // output 01/15/00

Answer 5

UNIX timestamp is number of seconds since 00:00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970 (according to Wikipedia).

Argument of Date object in Javascript is number of miliseconds since 00:00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970 (according to W3Schools Javascript documentation).

See code below for example:

    function tm(unix_tm) {
        var dt = new Date(unix_tm*1000);
        document.writeln(dt.getHours() + '/' + dt.getMinutes() + '/' + dt.getSeconds() + ' -- ' + dt + '<br>');

    }

tm(60);
tm(86400);

gives:

1/1/0 -- Thu Jan 01 1970 01:01:00 GMT+0100 (Central European Standard Time)
1/0/0 -- Fri Jan 02 1970 01:00:00 GMT+0100 (Central European Standard Time)

Answer 6

Pay attention to the zero problem with some of the answers. For example, the timestamp 1439329773 would be mistakenly converted to 12/08/2015 0:49.

I would suggest on using the following to overcome this issue:

var timestamp = 1439329773; // replace your timestamp
var date = new Date(timestamp * 1000);
var formattedDate = ('0' + date.getDate()).slice(-2) + '/' + ('0' + (date.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2) + '/' + date.getFullYear() + ' ' + ('0' + date.getHours()).slice(-2) + ':' + ('0' + date.getMinutes()).slice(-2);
console.log(formattedDate);

Now results in:

12/08/2015 00:49