How Do I Convert The "time" From The Meetup API To A Recognizable Format?

http://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/docs/2/event/ Here's the Meetup API's definition of time: Event start time in milliseconds since the epoch, or relative to the current time in the

Solution 1:

You can construct a date object like this

var date = new Date(milliseconds);

And then you could apply any format you want using Date properties

Solution 2:

Try this

// Convert milliseconds since since 00:00:00 UTC, Thursday, 1 January 1970 (the epoch in Unix speak)
var date = new Date(1382742000000);

// now get individual properties from the date object to construct a new format

// hours part from the timestamp
var hours = date.getHours();

// minutes part from the timestamp
var minutes = date.getMinutes();

// seconds part from the timestamp
var seconds = date.getSeconds();

// display time in our new format
var formattedTime = hours + ':' + minutes + ':' + seconds;

Solution 3:

moment.js library can help very well

moment(1382742000000) will give you object and inside of it you can see:

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