jquery tmpl formatting a date?

Question

I am using jquery tmpl to show a bunch of results in a table. One of them is a date which I am outputting using this in my template:

<td class="textAlignRight">${EffectiveDate}</td>

but it comes out formatted like "/Date(1245398693390)/". How can I change it so that it comes out formatted like m/dd/yyyy h:mm tt?

Answer 1

Simply use a function to format your date:

Template:

<td class="textAlignRight">${GetDate(EffectiveDate)}</td>

Function:

function GetDate(jsonDate) {
  var value = new Date(parseInt(jsonDate.substr(6)));
  return value.getMonth() + 1 + "/" + value.getDate() + "/" + value.getFullYear();
}

Answer 2

<td class="textAlignRight">{{= format(new Date(parseInt(EffectiveDate.substr(6))), 'd') }}</td>