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JavaScript readable date/time from PHP's time()

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Is it possible to have JavaScript compute a timestamp returned from PHP's time() function and present it in a readable format such as Sun, 18th April 2010 at 4:00 pm?

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answered 14 Years ago turnerf · Accepted Answer

Use the Date object to do that:

new Date(<?php echo time(); ?>*1000)

You need to multiply the Unix timestamp by 1000 becuase Date expects the timestamp to be in milliseconds.

And to format the date, you can use this Date.format method (Date has none built in).