js Date from timestamp code example

Example 1: js timestamp

var timestamp = new Date().getTime();

Example 2: unix time to date javascript

const unixTime = 1210981217;
const date = new Date(unixTime*1000);
console.log(date.toLocaleDateString("en-US"));
//expected: "5/16/2008"

Example 3: how to format unix timestamp javascript

var s = new Date(1504095567183).toLocaleDateString("en-US")
// expected output "8/30/2017"  
console.log(s);

Example 4: convert date to timestamp javascript

//  human date --> timestamp

function toTimestamp(strDate){
   var datum = Date.parse(strDate);
   return datum/1000;
}
alert(toTimestamp('02/13/2009 23:31:30'));

Example 5: how to get timestamp in javascript of a date object

new Date().getTime()

new Date().valueOf()

Example 6: javascript get timestamp

var currentTimeInSeconds=Math.floor(Date.now()/1000); //unix timestamp in seconds
var currentTimeInMilliseconds=Date.now(); // unix timestamp in milliseconds