Question

My application is getting a datetime value from JSON in the following format:

Created
"/Date(1335232596000)/"

To show the value on the front end, I wrote a js function with the following code:

 return new Date(parseInt(date.substr(6)));

This however, shows the following:

Mon Apr 23 2012 20:56:36 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)

Any suggestions on how can I get the date to display like this:

"04/23/2012 - 08:56:26pm CST" 

Answer 1

Use the official jQuery Globalization Plugin format method:

Globalize.format( new Date(1955,10,5), "yyyy/MM/dd" );
// "1955/11/05"
Globalize.format( new Date(1955,10,5), "dddd MMMM d, yyyy" );
// "Saturday November 5, 1955"

There are a ton of date formatting options available.