How to format $.now() with Jquery

Question

$.now() gives me the time as miliseconds. I need to show it something like hh:mm:ss

How can I do that in Jquery?

Answer 1

I'd suggest date-format jQuery plugin. Like this one or this one (I am using the former)

Answer 2

I'm way late to this, but thought i'd just throw this little snippet out there for the masses. This is something I use just to get a quick localized timestamp. It's pretty clean and handy.

function getStamp() {
    var d = new Date();

    var mm = d.getMilliseconds(), hh = d.getHours(),
        MM = d.getMinutes(), ss = d.getSeconds();

    return (hh < 10 ? "0" : "") + hh + (MM < 10 ? ":0" : ":") + MM + (ss < 10 ? ":0" : ":") + ss + ":" + mm;
};

Answer 3

jQuery doesn't have date formatting. You can roll your own with the JavaScript Date object, or you can use a library that does it for you. DateJS is one such library, which provides a rich set of formatting, parsing, and manipulation functionality. However, it hasn't been maintained in years. momentjs is under active development.

Answer 4

function formatTimeOfDay(millisSinceEpoch) {
  var secondsSinceEpoch = (millisSinceEpoch / 1000) | 0;
  var secondsInDay = ((secondsSinceEpoch % 86400) + 86400) % 86400;
  var seconds = secondsInDay % 60;
  var minutes = ((secondsInDay / 60) | 0) % 60;
  var hours = (secondsInDay / 3600) | 0;
  return hours + (minutes < 10 ? ":0" : ":")
      + minutes + (seconds < 10 ? ":0" : ":")
      + seconds;
}

Answer 5

JSFiddle example here

http://jsfiddle.net/NHhMv/

The jquery now is nothing but

The $.now() method is a shorthand for the number returned by the expression

(new Date).getTime().

from jquery

http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.now/

and follow this link

Where can I find documentation on formatting a date in JavaScript?

Answer 6

new Date().toString().split(' ')[4]

or

new Date().toString().match(/\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}/)[0]

The toString method is basically an alias for toLocaleString in most implementations. This will return the time in the user's timezone as opposed to assuming UTC by using milliseconds if you use getTime (if you use getMilliseconds you should be OK) or toUTCString.