Question

I have a problem which can’t solve by myself.

Here is timestamp 1308085200 taken from my website database. It represents 2011-06-15 12:00:00

Here is javascript code which I use to “fetch” date in human readable format.

var date    = new Date(1308085200 * 1000);
var year    = date.getFullYear();
var month   = date.getMonth();
var day     = date.getDate();
var hour    = date.getUTCHours();
var minute  = date.getUTCMinutes();
var seconds = date.getUTCSeconds();

The problem is that I get wrong results. For example the code above shows 2011-5-15 21:0:0 instead of 2011-06-15 12:00:00

What I do wrong and how to fix that ?

Answer 1

JavaScript’s Date::getMonth() returns a zero-based integer from 0 to 11 which is why your date is showing May instead of June.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/getMonth

Update

As for the time portion, this is what I get (AEST)

var d = new Date(1308085200000); // Wed Jun 15 07:00:00 GMT+1000 (EST)
d.toUTCString() // Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:00:00 GMT
d.getUTCFullYear() // 2011
d.getUTCMonth() // 5
d.getUTCDate() // 14
d.getUTCHours() // 21
d.getUTCMinutes() // 0
d.getUTCSeconds() // 0

Looks like your timestamp is actually not what you think it is.