JavaScript get date and time from timestamp

Question

I have this field as part of a web response:

datetime_local: "2015-02-16T19:00:00"

Can I extract the date and time? For instance I would like to display

February 16th at 7pm

Is this possible?

You may be interested in looking into the moment.js library: momentjs.com — Chris Pietschmann
– Chris Pietschmann, Commented Feb 16, 2015 at 18:43
If you are able to use an external library, take a look at @Pinal 's answer. This momentjs library will save you a lot of fussing with times. — ThisClark
– ThisClark, Commented Feb 16, 2015 at 18:57

void · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-16 18:41:50Z

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Use this function

function getFormattedDate(date)
{
var fortnightAway = new Date(date),
        date = fortnightAway.getUTCDate(),
        hour = fortnightAway.getUTCHours(),
        month = "January,February,March,April,May,June,July,August,September,October,November,December"
      .split(",")[fortnightAway.getUTCMonth()];

    function nth(d) {
      if(d>3 && d<21) return 'th'; // thanks kennebec
      switch (d % 10) {
            case 1:  return "st";
            case 2:  return "nd";
            case 3:  return "rd";
            default: return "th";
        }
    }

return month+" "+date+nth(date) +" at "+(hour<12?hour+"am":(hour-12)+"pm");   
}

Call it like getFormattedDate("2015-02-16T19:00:00")

Working Fiddle

answered Feb 16, 2015 at 18:41

void

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Guy Over a year ago

@void : Without 'Z' (e.g. "2015-02-16T19:00:00Z") or without timezone, your Fiddle give different result in IE/FF/Chrome (local or UTC)... new Date(date) parsing algorithms are implementation-dependent.

Alex · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-16 18:46:17Z

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You can using momentjs.com for formatting:

moment(Date.parse("2015-02-16T19:00:00")).format("MMMM Do [at] hhA");
// February 16th at 10PM

answered Feb 16, 2015 at 18:46

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ThisClark Over a year ago

Include the at word by escaping it - moment('2015-02-16T19:00:00').format('MMMM Do [at] h:mm a');

andrewb Over a year ago

This produces February 16th at 12PM which is incorrect, seems to be treating the date as GMT-7

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