How to convert Date to timestamp using MomentJS?
To get the time from the date use the format method of momentjs
var date = moment('2016-10-11 18:06:03').tz('Europe/Paris').format();
console.log(date);
console.log(moment(date).format("X"));
console.log(moment(date).format("x")); // for milliseconds
console.log(moment(date).format("HH:mm"));
console.log(moment(date).format("hh:mm A"));
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moment().format("X"); // lowercase 'x' for milliseconds
var date = moment('2016-10-11 18:06:03').tz('Europe/Paris').format(),
timestamp = moment(date).format("X");
$('#div1').text(date);
$('#timestamp').text(timestamp);
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<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment-timezone/0.5.21/moment-timezone-with-data.min.js"></script>
<div id="div1"></div>
<div id="timestamp"></div>
You said:
I used MomentJS to convert local date to UTC date using the following way:
moment("2016-10-11 18:06:03").tz("Europe/Paris").format()
That doesn't do that. That converts a local value to Paris time, and emits it as a string in ISO8601 format.
Now I need timestamp from the output value using MomentJS.
That's a different question, and wouldn't involve the output of the above because:
You can't get a timestamp from the output string, you'd get it from a
moment
object. You could parse that string, but that would be silly since you already had amoment
object earlier.Timestamps are UTC based, so time zone conversion is irrelevant. You'd get the same timestamp if you didn't convert at all.
You can get a string with a timestamp using .format('X')
or .format('x')
depending on which precision you want. But it's much cleaner to just get the numerical timestamp using .valueOf()
or .unix()
, again depending on precision.