I am getting data from a database and displaying it:
<ul>
<li ng-repeat="item in items>
<mydate>{{item.date}}</mydate>
</li>
</ul>
Where {{item.date}} is a Unix date such as 1374843600. How can I set the date format using AngularJS directives? Is it possible?
When I tried to do it, I was getting a value of tag mydate -{{item.date}}
I have faced the issue with unix time formatted as a number of seconds from the epoch start or as a number of milliseconds that is used in JavaScript. So strictly speaking, AngularJS doesn't convert Unix timestamp to Date, but a number with milliseconds, which is 1000 times larger, so first you will have to multiply your input number by 1000, like this:
<mydate>{{item.date * 1000 | date:'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss Z'}}</mydate>
Otherwise your date will be wrong.
00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), Thursday, 1 January 1970. I dont think Bigbang happened only 1432897853 seconds ago.
Use format date filter like this:
<mydate>{{item.date * 1000 | date:'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss Z'}}</mydate>
1000 like this: <mydate>{{item.date * 1000 | date:'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss Z'}}</mydate>If you have a Unix timestamp, you'll probably have to multiply your timestamp by 1000 since the Unix timestamp is in seconds and AngularJs date filter needs milliseconds.
vm.milliseconds = Date('1441981121' * 1000);
then use $filter() function
var date = $filter('date')(vm.milliseconds, 'd MMMM yyyy');
or you can use in ng-bind
<span ng-bind="myController.milliseconds | date : 'd MMMM yyyy'"></span>
You should use the date filter that is already provided by angular: here
yourapp.filter('timestampToDate', function () {
return function (timestamp) {
var date = new Date(timestamp * 1000);
var dateObject = date.getFullYear() +'/'+ ('0' + (date.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2) +'/'+ ('0' + date.getDate()).slice(-2);
return dateObject;
};
});
Usage:
{{timestamp | timestampToDate}}
There is directive to that called rsTime.
<rs-time start-time="1478513323" digital-format="'ddd MMM d h:mm TT'"></rs-time>
Check demo at Plunker .
Below are different formates of time:
M/d/y - 11/7/2016
HH:mm:ss - 16:02:31 (24hrs formate)
hh:mm:ss TT - 04:03:10 PM
ddd MMM d h:mm TT - Mon Nov 7 at 4:04 PM
For documentation visit Github
