Comments on: Date Formatting with YUI – Part III http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2009/03/18/date-formatting-pt3/ The official blog of the YUI Project. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:46:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Philip Tellis http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2009/03/18/date-formatting-pt3/comment-page-1/#comment-579129 Philip Tellis Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:53:43 +0000 http://yuiblog.com/blog/2009/03/18/date-formatting-pt3/#comment-579129 Unix timestamps are in seconds, Javascript timestamps are in milliseconds. What you're looking at in the example above are Javascript timestamps, ie, milliseconds. To an experienced programmer dealing with timestamps in say PHP or C++, there will appear to be excess zeroes. Three extra in fact. I always feel a little uncomfortable when I look at it, but that's Javascript for you :) - at least there's no need for a separate HiResTime object. The example's correct though. Try it out. There's a working link at the end of the post. Unix timestamps are in seconds, Javascript timestamps are in milliseconds. What you’re looking at in the example above are Javascript timestamps, ie, milliseconds. To an experienced programmer dealing with timestamps in say PHP or C++, there will appear to be excess zeroes. Three extra in fact. I always feel a little uncomfortable when I look at it, but that’s Javascript for you :) – at least there’s no need for a separate HiResTime object.

The example’s correct though. Try it out. There’s a working link at the end of the post.

]]> By: poolboy http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2009/03/18/date-formatting-pt3/comment-page-1/#comment-579056 poolboy Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:48:15 +0000 http://yuiblog.com/blog/2009/03/18/date-formatting-pt3/#comment-579056 // Note: Unix timestamps output seconds since the Epoch, // so multiply by 1000 to get a JS timestamp Whatever you've got there aren't unix timestamps. There appear to be excess zeroes and you probably meant divide not multiply. Didn't bother to read the rest if the first 5 lines of example are so sloppy // Note: Unix timestamps output seconds since the Epoch,
// so multiply by 1000 to get a JS timestamp

Whatever you’ve got there aren’t unix timestamps. There appear to be excess zeroes and you probably meant divide not multiply. Didn’t bother to read the rest if the first 5 lines of example are so sloppy

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