Unix timestamp to date in javascript

How to Convert a UNIX Timestamp to a Date in JavaScript or Node.js

The UNIX time describes a point in time using an integer value. This integer is the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch. The UNIX epoch is 01 January 1970 at 00:00:00 UTC.

This tutorial shows you how to convert a UNIX timestamp to a JavaScript date instance.

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Convert UNIX Time to a Date in JavaScript

The UNIX time uses seconds to represent a point in time. JavaScript dates work with milliseconds. You can still translate a UNIX timestamp to a JavaScript by translating the given value from seconds to milliseconds:

/** * Returns a date instance from the given `unixTimestamp`. * * @param unixTimestamp Number of seconds since Unix epoch * * @returns */ function toDate (unixTimestamp)

Enjoy working with UNIX times and JavaScript dates!

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Convert a Unix Timestamp to a Date in Vanilla JavaScript

How do you convert a Unix timestamp value into a human-readable date using vanilla JavaScript?

You can convert the Unix timestamp to a date string by following these three steps:

1. Convert the unix timestamp into milliseconds by multiplying it by 1000 .
2. Use the newly created milliseconds value to create a date object with the new Date() constructor method.
3. Use the .toLocaleString() function to convert the date object into human-friendly date strings.

In this article, we’ll walk you through each of those steps.

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Convert the Unix Timestamp to Milliseconds

Since the new Date() function needs to be supplied with a milliseconds value, we need to first convert our given Unix timestamp to milliseconds. We can do this by simply multiplying the Unix timestamp by 1000 .

Unix time is the number of seconds that have elapsed since the Unix epoch, which is the time 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970 . It’s most commonly used to create a running total of seconds when interacting with computers.

Therefore, a Unix timestamp is simply the number of seconds between a specific date and the original Unix Epoch date.

Measuring time using Unix timestamps is particularly useful because it is the same for everyone around the globe at all times since they don’t observe timezones. This can be very useful for dealing with dated information on both the server and client-side of applications.

So, let’s write some code to convert a Unix timestamp to milliseconds:

const unixTimestamp = 1575909015 const milliseconds = unixTimestamp * 1000 // 1575909015000 

Feel free to substitute your own Unix timestamp in the code above.

In the next section, we’ll put to use that milliseconds value we just created.

Create a Date Object Using new Date()

Now that we have a milliseconds value, we can create a new Date() object.

The Date object instance we create will represent a single moment in time and will hold data on the year, month, day, hour, minute, and second for that moment in time.

Let’s add on to the code we already wrote in the last section. To create the Date object, make your code look like this:

const unixTimestamp = 1575909015 const milliseconds = 1575909015 * 1000 // 1575909015000 const dateObject = new Date(milliseconds) 

We use the new Date() constructor and pass to it the milliseconds variable we created in the last section.

As a result, we’re left with a newly created dateObject variable that represents the Date object instance.

We’ll use this in the next section.

Create Human-Friendly Date Strings With .toLocaleString()

Now that we have a Date object to work with, we can start creating some human-friendly date strings.

Using the .toLocaleString() function is one really easy way to do this. The function can be called on a data object and will return a string with a language sensitive representation of the date portion of the given date object.

Here’s what a simple code example looks like (adding on to the code we have written in the past sections):

const unixTimestamp = 1575909015 const milliseconds = 1575909015 * 1000 // 1575909015000 const dateObject = new Date(milliseconds) const humanDateFormat = dateObject.toLocaleString() //2019-12-9 10:30:15 

As you can see, we created a human-friendly date string by calling the .toLocaleString() on the dateObject we created in the last section.

Here are some examples of how you can use the .toLocaleString() to return strings of specific components of the date by passing different arguments to the .toLocaleString() function:

const unixTimestamp = 1575909015 const milliseconds = 1575909015 * 1000 // 1575909015000 const dateObject = new Date(milliseconds) const humanDateFormat = dateObject.toLocaleString() //2019-12-9 10:30:15 dateObject.toLocaleString("en-US", ) // Monday dateObject.toLocaleString("en-US", ) // December dateObject.toLocaleString("en-US", ) // 9 dateObject.toLocaleString("en-US", ) // 2019 dateObject.toLocaleString("en-US", ) // 10 AM dateObject.toLocaleString("en-US", ) // 30 dateObject.toLocaleString("en-US", ) // 15 dateObject.toLocaleString("en-US", ) // 12/9/2019, 10:30:15 AM CST 

The .toLocaleString takes a locales string parameter that alters results based on language and geography. In the example above, we used the «en-US» locale tag. You can learn more about other values you can use instead here.

We also passed an object with some options in it as well. If you want to learn more, there’s some good information about those here.

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