new Date(milliseconds) returns Invalid date

Question

I am trying to convert milliseconds to a date using the javascript using:

new Date(Milliseconds);  

constructor, but when I give it a milliseconds value of say 1372439683000 it returns invalid date. If I go to a site that converts milliseconds to date it returns the correct date.

Any ideas why?

Answer 1

You're not using a number, you're using a string that looks like a number. According to MDN, when you pass a string into Date, it expects

a format recognized by the parse method (IETF-compliant RFC 2822 timestamps).

An example of such a string is "December 17, 1995 03:24:00", but you're passing in a string that looks like "1372439683000", which is not able to be parsed.

Convert Milliseconds to a number using parseInt, or a unary +:

new Date(+Milliseconds);  new Date(parseInt(Milliseconds,10));