What is returned is milliseconds since epoch. You could do:
var d = new Date();
d.setTime(1245398693390);
document.write(d);
On how to format the date exactly as you want, see full Date
reference at http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_date.asp
You could strip the non-digits by either parsing the integer (as suggested here):
var date = new Date(parseInt(jsonDate.substr(6)));
Or applying the following regular expression (from Tominator in the comments):
var jsonDate = jqueryCall(); // returns "/Date(1245398693390)/";
var re = /-?\d+/;
var m = re.exec(jsonDate);
var d = new Date(parseInt(m[0]));
I have been using this method for a while:
using System;
public static class ExtensionMethods {
// returns the number of milliseconds since Jan 1, 1970 (useful for converting C# dates to JS dates)
public static double UnixTicks(this DateTime dt)
{
DateTime d1 = new DateTime(1970, 1, 1);
DateTime d2 = dt.ToUniversalTime();
TimeSpan ts = new TimeSpan(d2.Ticks - d1.Ticks);
return ts.TotalMilliseconds;
}
}
Assuming you are developing against .NET 3.5, it's a straight copy/paste. You can otherwise port it.
You can encapsulate this in a JSON object, or simply write it to the response stream.
On the Javascript/JSON side, you convert this to a date by simply passing the ticks into a new Date object:
jQuery.ajax({
...
success: function(msg) {
var d = new Date(msg);
}
}
To parse the date string using String.replace with backreference:
var milli = "/Date(1245398693390)/".replace(/\/Date\((-?\d+)\)\//, '$1');
var d = new Date(parseInt(milli));
If you pass a DateTime
from a .Net code to a javascript code,
C#:
DateTime net_datetime = DateTime.Now;
javascript treats it as a string, like "/Date(1245398693390)/"
:
You can convert it as fllowing:
// convert the string to date correctly
var d = eval(net_datetime.slice(1, -1))
or:
// convert the string to date correctly
var d = eval("/Date(1245398693390)/".slice(1, -1))
If you're having trouble getting to the time information, you can try something like this:
d.date = d.date.replace('/Date(', '');
d.date = d.date.replace(')/', '');
var expDate = new Date(parseInt(d.date));
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