How to convert timestamp to readable format in blockchain info

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I need some help with Blockchain API timestamps. The timestamps from the JSON responses are not user readable. I need to parse this to a readable format to run some logical function based on time. 

The timestamp looks something like this:

"time": 1331300839,

I tried to do something like this:

var test = new Date(1331300839);
test.getFullYear();

This is not working. How can I convert the timestamp to a readable format?

Sep 3, 2018 in Blockchain by digger
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3 answers to this question.

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Best answer

You are talking about the block_time property of the block. The block_time is in Unix time format. A quick way to convert this without using any library is by running it through the date command.

Something like this:

$ date -d @1395103695


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Thanks.

answered Apr 29, 2019 by Raghu

selected Apr 29, 2019 by Omkar

This works! The date is returned in the following format:

<Day> <Month> <Date> <Time> <Standards> <Year>

Hey. This is not working for me. I am using Mac OSX and this command is not working. Any alternatives for Mac OSX?

Try this for Mac:

$ date -j -f "%s" 1395103695
+2 votes

Try using the moment.js library. The code will look something like this:

var time = moment.unix(1331300839)

And then convert to parsed data to string using moment.toString():

time.toString()
// "Fri Sep 03 2018 10:23:19 GMT+0100"
answered Sep 3, 2018 by slayer
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+2 votes

The date is not actually in a non-readable format, it's just in a different readable format. The data you mentioned in the question is the data in milliseconds. So, you can use that value and convert it into the data by multiplying it with 1000. Try something like this:

var test = new Date(1331300839*1000);
alert(test.getFullYear());
answered Sep 3, 2018 by Jonas Black

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