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JSON - How to format a Date String

Posted on 2013-01-02

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Hi.
I have web service that returns a value like

/Date(1357142400000)/

How can I format like 'Jan 2 11:00 AM'

When I tried using the Date() it returns

"Wed Jan 02 21:46:20 2013" Which can't be correct.

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Question by:JElster

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by:Minh Võ Công

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ID: 387389142013-01-02

/Date(1357142400000)/ is UTC format time.
you can read more here
http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2008/01/18/dates-and-json.aspx
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/206384/how-to-format-a-json-date

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by:Pratima Pharande

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ID: 387389502013-01-02

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/OnTheNightmareThatIsJSONDatesPlusJSONNETAndASPNETWebAPI.aspx

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by:JElster

ID: 387397732013-01-03

Hi..
I still don't see how to do it.

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by:Sar1973

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ID: 387433192013-01-04

This function:

function myDateConverter() {
var myDate = new Date(1357142400000);
var myGMTDate=myDate.toUTCString();
}

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will output "Wed, 2 Jan 2013 16:00:00 UTC".

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by:Sar1973

ID: 387433692013-01-04

Use then one or more between these functions and the JS string functions to create a customised date string.

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