Parsing Javascript Date

Question

A website I am looking at has the following code.

var d = new Date(1362236400000);

This javascript date object somehow encodes the following HTML output,

"2/3/2013 10:00"

Could someone please explain this encoding? I need to make a python script that manipulates those javascript numbers to recreate the HTML output. Thanks!

@Sam: milliseconds, actually.

Martijn Pieters
– Martijn Pieters

2013-03-02 21:44:26 +00:00
Commented Mar 2, 2013 at 21:44 — Martijn Pieters
– Martijn Pieters, Commented Mar 2, 2013 at 21:44

Martijn Pieters · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-02 21:54:06Z

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The value is the number of miliseconds since the epoch. In Python that could be handled with the datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp() constructor:

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(1362236400000/1000)
datetime.datetime(2013, 3, 2, 16, 0)

edited Mar 2, 2013 at 21:54

answered Mar 2, 2013 at 21:43

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appleLover Over a year ago

thanks so much Martijn. I spent over 5 hours already trying various things like playing around with this number in a javascript console, trying to use pyv8 to run javascript in my python program and running spynner. Your answer is just what i was looking for!!

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