Get the Day, Month, Year from a Timestamp in JavaScript

Get the Day, Month, Year from a Timestamp in JavaScript #

To get the day, month and year values from a timestamp:

1. Pass the timestamp to the Date() constructor to create a Date object.
2. Use the getFullYear(), getMonth() and getDate() methods to get the year, month and day values.

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const timestamp = 1643200384959;

const date = new Date(timestamp);
console.log(date); // 👉️ Wed Jan 26 2022

const year = date.getFullYear();
console.log(year); // 👉️ 2022

const month = date.getMonth();
console.log(month); // 👉️ 0 (January = 0, February = 1, etc)

const monthName = date.toLocaleString('default', {
  month: 'long',
});
console.log(monthName); // 👉️ "January"

const day = date.getDate();
console.log(day); // 👉️ 26

You can pass a timestamp (in milliseconds) to the Date() constructor to create a Date object.

We used the following 3 date-related methods:

• Date.getFullYear method - returns a four-digit number representing the year that corresponds to a date.

• Date.getMonth - returns an integer between 0 (January) and 11 (December) and represents the month for a given date. Yes, unfortunately the getMonth method is off by 1.

• Date.getDate - returns an integer between 1 and 31 representing the day of the month for a specific date.

The getFullYear, getMonth and getDate methods return the values according to the visitor's local time, if you need to get the year, month and day according to universal time, use the getUTC* methods instead.

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const timestamp = 1643200384959;

const date = new Date(timestamp);

console.log(date); // 👉️ Wed Jan 26 2022

const year = date.getUTCFullYear();
console.log(year); // 👉️ 2022

const month = date.getUTCMonth();
console.log(month); // 👉️ 0 (January = 0, February = 1, etc)

const monthName = date.toLocaleString('default', {
  month: 'long',
});
console.log(monthName); // 👉️ January

const day = date.getUTCDate();
console.log(day); // 👉️ 26

The getUTC* methods return the values according to universal time.