How do I convert this timestamp from php into a javascript Date() object?
This is how I grab the time:
$timestart = time();
and I parse this to a javascript function and I want to convert it into a JavaScript date object.
help, all this date stuff confuses me quite a bit.
thanks,
If val contains your PHP value which is
the current time measured in the number of seconds since the Unix Epoch
then you just need this:
var timestart = new Date(val * 1000);
JavaScript uses the same base time as UNIX systems (midnight on 01/01/1970) but measured in milliseconds rather than seconds.
Substring the parts of the timestamp you need to create the Date. Then initialise like so,
var d = new Date(year, month, date);
This is a cross browser implementation.
Solution here : Convert a Unix timestamp to time in JavaScript