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Converting string m/dd/yyyy HH:MM:SS to date dd-mm-yyyy in Javascript

I have a string that looks like '1/11/2018 12:00:00 AM' and I want to reformat it to dd-mm-yyyy.
Keep in mind that the month can be double digit sometimes.

You can use libraries like moment.js. Assuming either you do not want to use any external library or can not use it, then you can use following custom method:
function formatDate(dateStr) {
let date = new Date(dateStr);
let day = date.getDate();
let month = date.getMonth() + 1;
let year = date.getFullYear();
return day + '-' + month + '-' + year;
}
console.log(formatDate('1/11/2018 12:00:00 AM'));

You can do somethink like this :
var d = new Date();
var curr_date = d.getDate();
var curr_month = d.getMonth() + 1; //Months are zero based
var curr_year = d.getFullYear();
console.log(curr_date + "-" + curr_month + "-" + curr_year);
However best way is with Moment.js,where you can Parse, Validate, Manipulate, and Display dates in JavaScript.
example:
var date= moment("06/06/2015 11:11:11").format('DD-MMM-YYYY');

function convertDate(oldDate) {
var myDate = new Date(Date.parse(oldDate)); //String -> Timestamp -> Date object
var day = myDate.getDate(); //get day
var month = myDate.getMonth() + 1; //get month
var year = myDate.getFullYear(); //get Year (4 digits)
return pad(day,2) + "-" + pad(month, 2) + "-" + year; //pad is a function for adding leading zeros
}
function pad(num, size) { //function for adding leading zeros
var s = num + "";
while (s.length < size) s = "0" + s;
return s;
}
convertDate("1/11/2018 12:00:00 AM"); //11-01-2018
Demo here

Convert a timestamp to YYYY-MM-DD with JS [duplicate]

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/SS format.

let unix_timestamp = 1549312452
// Create a new JavaScript Date object based on the timestamp
// multiplied by 1000 so that the argument is in milliseconds, not seconds.
var date = new Date(unix_timestamp * 1000);
// Hours part from the timestamp
var hours = date.getHours();
// Minutes part from the timestamp
var minutes = "0" + date.getMinutes();
// Seconds part from the timestamp
var seconds = "0" + date.getSeconds();
// Will display time in 10:30:23 format
var formattedTime = hours + ':' + minutes.substr(-2) + ':' + seconds.substr(-2);
console.log(formattedTime);
For more information regarding the Date object, please refer to MDN or the ECMAScript 5 specification.

function timeConverter(UNIX_timestamp){
var a = new Date(UNIX_timestamp * 1000);
var months = ['Jan','Feb','Mar','Apr','May','Jun','Jul','Aug','Sep','Oct','Nov','Dec'];
var year = a.getFullYear();
var month = months[a.getMonth()];
var date = a.getDate();
var hour = a.getHours();
var min = a.getMinutes();
var sec = a.getSeconds();
var time = date + ' ' + month + ' ' + year + ' ' + hour + ':' + min + ':' + sec ;
return time;
}
console.log(timeConverter(0));

JavaScript works in milliseconds, so you'll first have to convert the UNIX timestamp from seconds to milliseconds.
var date = new Date(UNIX_Timestamp * 1000);
// Manipulate JavaScript Date object here...

Use:
var s = new Date(1504095567183).toLocaleDateString("en-US")
console.log(s)
// expected output "8/30/2017"
and for time:
var s = new Date(1504095567183).toLocaleTimeString("en-US")
console.log(s)
// expected output "3:19:27 PM"
see Date.prototype.toLocaleDateString()

Modern Solution (for 2020)
In the new world, we should be moving towards the standard Intl JavaScript object, that has a handy DateTimeFormat constructor with .format() method:
function format_time(s) {
const dtFormat = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-GB', {
timeStyle: 'medium',
timeZone: 'UTC'
});
return dtFormat.format(new Date(s * 1e3));
}
console.log( format_time(12345) ); // "03:25:45"
Eternal Solution
But to be 100% compatible with all legacy JavaScript engines, here is the shortest one-liner solution to format seconds as hh:mm:ss:
function format_time(s) {
return new Date(s * 1e3).toISOString().slice(-13, -5);
}
console.log( format_time(12345) ); // "03:25:45"
Method Date.prototype.toISOString() returns time in
simplified extended ISO 8601 format, which is always 24 or 27 characters long (i.e. YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ or
±YYYYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ respectively). The timezone is always
zero UTC offset.
This solution does not require any third-party libraries and is supported in all browsers and JavaScript engines.

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')

I'd think about using a library like momentjs.com, that makes this really simple:
Based on a Unix timestamp:
var timestamp = moment.unix(1293683278);
console.log( timestamp.format("HH/mm/ss") );
Based on a MySQL date string:
var now = moment("2010-10-10 12:03:15");
console.log( now.format("HH/mm/ss") );

shortest one-liner solution to format seconds as hh:mm:ss: variant:
console.log(new Date(1549312452 * 1000).toISOString().slice(0, 19).replace('T', ' '));
// "2019-02-04 20:34:12"

In moment you must use unix timestamp:
const dateTimeString = moment.unix(1466760005).format("DD-MM-YYYY HH:mm:ss");

This works with PHP timestamps
var d = 1541415288860;
//var d =val.timestamp;
//NB: use + before variable name
var date = new Date(+d);
console.log(d);
console.log(date.toDateString());
console.log(date.getFullYear());
console.log(date.getMinutes());
console.log(date.getSeconds());
console.log(date.getHours());
console.log(date.toLocaleTimeString());
var d =val.timestamp;
var date=new Date(+d); //NB: use + before variable name
console.log(d);
console.log(date.toDateString());
console.log(date.getFullYear());
console.log(date.getMinutes());
console.log(date.getSeconds());
console.log(date.getHours());
console.log(date.toLocaleTimeString());
the methods above will generate this results
1541415288860
Mon Nov 05 2018
2018
54
48
13
1:54:48 PM
There's a bunch of methods that work perfectly with timestamps. Cant list them all

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)

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");

The problem with the aforementioned solutions is, that if hour, minute or second, has only one digit (i.e. 0-9), the time would be wrong, e.g. it could be 2:3:9, but it should rather be 02:03:09.
According to this page it seems to be a better solution to use Date's "toLocaleTimeString" method.

Another way - from an ISO 8601 date.
var timestamp = 1293683278;
var date = new Date(timestamp * 1000);
var iso = date.toISOString().match(/(\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2})/)
alert(iso[1]);

Based on #shomrat's answer, here is a snippet that automatically writes datetime like this (a bit similar to StackOverflow's date for answers: answered Nov 6 '16 at 11:51):
today, 11:23
or
yersterday, 11:23
or (if different but same year than today)
6 Nov, 11:23
or (if another year than today)
6 Nov 2016, 11:23
function timeConverter(t) {
var a = new Date(t * 1000);
var today = new Date();
var yesterday = new Date(Date.now() - 86400000);
var months = ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'];
var year = a.getFullYear();
var month = months[a.getMonth()];
var date = a.getDate();
var hour = a.getHours();
var min = a.getMinutes();
if (a.setHours(0,0,0,0) == today.setHours(0,0,0,0))
return 'today, ' + hour + ':' + min;
else if (a.setHours(0,0,0,0) == yesterday.setHours(0,0,0,0))
return 'yesterday, ' + hour + ':' + min;
else if (year == today.getFullYear())
return date + ' ' + month + ', ' + hour + ':' + min;
else
return date + ' ' + month + ' ' + year + ', ' + hour + ':' + min;
}

function getTIMESTAMP() {
var date = new Date();
var year = date.getFullYear();
var month = ("0" + (date.getMonth() + 1)).substr(-2);
var day = ("0" + date.getDate()).substr(-2);
var hour = ("0" + date.getHours()).substr(-2);
var minutes = ("0" + date.getMinutes()).substr(-2);
var seconds = ("0" + date.getSeconds()).substr(-2);
return year + "-" + month + "-" + day + " " + hour + ":" + minutes + ":" + seconds;
}
//2016-01-14 02:40:01

The modern solution that doesn't need a 40 KB library:
Intl.DateTimeFormat is the non-culturally imperialistic way to format a date/time.
// Setup once
var options = {
//weekday: 'long',
//month: 'short',
//year: 'numeric',
//day: 'numeric',
hour: 'numeric',
minute: 'numeric',
second: 'numeric'
},
intlDate = new Intl.DateTimeFormat( undefined, options );
// Reusable formatter
var timeStamp = 1412743273;
console.log( intlDate.format( new Date( 1000 * timeStamp ) ) );

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

There are multiple ways to convert unix timestamp to time (HH/MM/SS)
Using new Date() - this is in-built in javascript
moment package - this is a famous node module, but this is going to deprecate.
dayjs package - this is one of the latest and fast growing node module
Using new Date()
const dateTimeStr = new Date(1504052527183).toLocaleString()
const result = (dateTimeStr.split(", ")[1]).split(":").join("/")
console.log(result)
Using moment
const moment = require('moment')
const timestampObj = moment.unix(1504052527183);
const result = timestampObj.format("HH/mm/ss")
console.log(result);
Using day.js
const dayjs = require('dayjs')
const result = dayjs(1504052527183).format("HH/mm/ss")
console.log(result);
you can check the timestamp to time conversion with an online time conversion tool

// Format value as two digits 0 => 00, 1 => 01
function twoDigits(value) {
if(value < 10) {
return '0' + value;
}
return value;
}
var date = new Date(unix_timestamp*1000);
// display in format HH:MM:SS
var formattedTime = twoDigits(date.getHours())
+ ':' + twoDigits(date.getMinutes())
+ ':' + twoDigits(date.getSeconds());

function getDateTimeFromTimestamp(unixTimeStamp) {
let date = new Date(unixTimeStamp);
return ('0' + date.getDate()).slice(-2) + '/' + ('0' + (date.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2) + '/' + date.getFullYear() + ' ' + ('0' + date.getHours()).slice(-2) + ':' + ('0' + date.getMinutes()).slice(-2);
}
const myTime = getDateTimeFromTimestamp(1435986900000);
console.log(myTime); // output 01/05/2000 11:00

You can use the following function to convert your timestamp to HH:MM:SS format :
var convertTime = function(timestamp, separator) {
var pad = function(input) {return input < 10 ? "0" + input : input;};
var date = timestamp ? new Date(timestamp * 1000) : new Date();
return [
pad(date.getHours()),
pad(date.getMinutes()),
pad(date.getSeconds())
].join(typeof separator !== 'undefined' ? separator : ':' );
}
Without passing a separator, it uses : as the (default) separator :
time = convertTime(1061351153); // --> OUTPUT = 05:45:53
If you want to use / as a separator, just pass it as the second parameter:
time = convertTime(920535115, '/'); // --> OUTPUT = 09/11/55
Demo
var convertTime = function(timestamp, separator) {
var pad = function(input) {return input < 10 ? "0" + input : input;};
var date = timestamp ? new Date(timestamp * 1000) : new Date();
return [
pad(date.getHours()),
pad(date.getMinutes()),
pad(date.getSeconds())
].join(typeof separator !== 'undefined' ? separator : ':' );
}
document.body.innerHTML = '<pre>' + JSON.stringify({
920535115 : convertTime(920535115, '/'),
1061351153 : convertTime(1061351153, ':'),
1435651350 : convertTime(1435651350, '-'),
1487938926 : convertTime(1487938926),
1555135551 : convertTime(1555135551, '.')
}, null, '\t') + '</pre>';
See also this Fiddle.

function timeConverter(UNIX_timestamp){
var a = new Date(UNIX_timestamp*1000);
var hour = a.getUTCHours();
var min = a.getUTCMinutes();
var sec = a.getUTCSeconds();
var time = hour+':'+min+':'+sec ;
return time;
}

See Date/Epoch Converter.
You need to ParseInt, otherwise it wouldn't work:
if (!window.a)
window.a = new Date();
var mEpoch = parseInt(UNIX_timestamp);
if (mEpoch < 10000000000)
mEpoch *= 1000;
------
a.setTime(mEpoch);
var year = a.getFullYear();
...
return time;

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

Try this :
new Date(1638525320* 1e3).toISOString() //2021-12-03T09:55:20.000Z

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

moment.js
convert timestamps to date string in js
https://momentjs.com/
moment().format('YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss');
// "2020-01-10 11:55:43"
moment(1578478211000).format('YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss');
// "2020-01-08 06:10:11"

If you want to convert Unix time duration to real hours, minutes, and seconds, you could use the following code:
var hours = Math.floor(timestamp / 60 / 60);
var minutes = Math.floor((timestamp - hours * 60 * 60) / 60);
var seconds = Math.floor(timestamp - hours * 60 * 60 - minutes * 60 );
var duration = hours + ':' + minutes + ':' + seconds;

Code below also provides 3-digit millisecs, ideal for console log prefixes:
const timeStrGet = date => {
const milliSecsStr = date.getMilliseconds().toString().padStart(3, '0') ;
return `${date.toLocaleTimeString('it-US')}.${milliSecsStr}`;
};
setInterval(() => console.log(timeStrGet(new Date())), 299);

convert javascript date to c# datetime

I am trying to convert javascript date to c# datetime
JavaScript Code
var date = new Date();
var day = date.getDay();
var month = date.getMonth();
var year = date.getFullYear();
var hour = date.getHours();
var minute = date.getMinutes();
var second = date.getSeconds();
// After this construct a string with the above results as below
var JSDateString = year+ "-" + month + "-" + day + " " + hour + ':' + minute + ':' + second;
C# Code
var JSDateString = "2016-04-02 17:15:45"; // I receive date string via Ajax call in this format
var dt = DateTime.ParseExact(JSDateString , "yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm:ss", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
I get invalid datetime format exception. I researched other options in internet but I didn't find any specific answer on how to convert JavaScript datetime to C# datetime.

mm is for minutes, you want MM for month:
var dt = DateTime.ParseExact(JSDateString , "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

This might help with the JavaScript side:
function getDate() {
var date = new Date(),
year = date.getFullYear(),
month = (date.getMonth() + 1).toString(),
formatedMonth = (month.length === 1) ? ("0" + month) : month,
day = date.getDate().toString(),
formatedDay = (day.length === 1) ? ("0" + day) : day,
hour = date.getHours().toString(),
formatedHour = (hour.length === 1) ? ("0" + hour) : hour,
minute = date.getMinutes().toString(),
formatedMinute = (minute.length === 1) ? ("0" + minute) : minute,
second = date.getSeconds().toString(),
formatedSecond = (second.length === 1) ? ("0" + second) : second;
return year + "-" + formatedMonth + "-" + formatedDay + " " + formatedHour + ':' + formatedMinute + ':' + formatedSecond;
};
View a fiddle here: https://jsfiddle.net/kpduncan/de8j318k/
I had too do something like this when I building an application due to not being allowed to add thrid party JS and needing support back to IE8.

As you can see on the MSDN, mm is for minutes (00 - 59) whereas MM is for the month (01 - 12).
var JSDateString = "2016-04-02 17:15:45";
var formatCode = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss";
var dt = DateTime.ParseExact(JSDateString , formatCode, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
You can see that mm is for minutes because you already use it in your HH:mm:ss.

How to format a dateTime

Okay I have the following problem. I want to get the current dateTime and then want do check if a date that I enter is bigger than the current DateTime. The format of my dateTime should look like this.
03/11/2012 09:37 AM
Here is the function how I get the current DateTime.
function getCurrentDateTime()
{
var currentTime = new Date()
// Date
var month = currentTime.getMonth() + 1;
if (month < 10){
month = "0" + month;
}
var day = currentTime.getDate();
var year = currentTime.getFullYear();
// Time
var hours = currentTime.getHours();
var minutes = currentTime.getMinutes();
if (minutes < 10){
minutes = "0" + minutes;
}
if(hours > 11){
var dateString = month + "/" + day + "/" + year + " " + hours + ":" + minutes + " " + "PM";
test = new Date(dateString);
return dateString ;
} else {
var dateString = month + "/" + day + "/" + year + " " + hours + ":" + minutes + " " + "AM";
return dateString;
}
}
As you can see how it gives back a string. But when I want to covert it to a date with this function. I get this format Fri May 11 2012 09:37:00 GMT+0200 (Romance Daylight Time)
date = new Date(dateString);
And with this I can't calculate.
Could anybody help me how I can get the current date in this format so that I can do the check?
Kind regards.

Javascript provides very limited functionality for working with dates out of the box. Use an external library like momentjs.
For example, your function would be reduced to
var stringDate = moment().format("DD/MM/YYYY HH:mm A");
And you could convert that and compare it to the current time with
var earlierDate = moment(stringDate, "DD/MM/YYYY HH:mm A");
if (earlierDate.valueOf() < moment().valueOf()) {
// earlier indeed
}

datejs is another lib for solving date-manipulation problems

Ajax get Date in dd/mm/yyyy format

var d = new Date();
var today_date = d.getDate() + '/' + month_name[d.getMonth()] + '/' + d.getFullYear();
This is how I am getting a date. It works with a slight problem. For todays date 7th of June 2011 it returns 7/11/2011, what i want it to return is 07/11/2011?
Anyone know how?

Well, you could simply check the length of d.getDate()and if it's 1 then you add a zero at the beginning. But you would like to take a look at format() to format your dates?

Like so:
("0"+1).slice(-2); // returns 01
("0"+10).slice(-2); // returns 10
Complete example:
var d = new Date(2011,1,1); // 1-Feb-2011
var today_date =
("0" + d.getDate()).slice(-2) + "/" +
("0" + (d.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2) + "/" +
d.getFullYear();
// 01/02/2011

Try this (http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/date-time-format):
var d = new Date();
d.format("dd/mm/yyyy");

Try this, this is more understandable.:
var currentTime = new Date();
var day = currentTime.getDate();
var month = currentTime.getMonth() + 1;
var year = currentTime.getFullYear();
if (day < 10){
day = "0" + day;
}
if (month < 10){
month = "0" + month;
}
var today_date = day + "/" + month + "/" + year;
document.write(today_date.toString());
And result is :
07/05/2011