Convert UTC Epoch to local date

Question

I have been fighting with this for a bit now. I’m trying to convert epoch to a date object. The epoch is sent to me in UTC. Whenever you pass new Date() an epoc

Answer 1

The simplest solution I've found to this, is:

var timestamp = Date.now(), // returns milliseconds since epoch time
    normalisedTime = new Date(timestamp);

Notice this doesn't have the * 1000 at the end of new Date(timestamp) statement as this (for me anyway!) always seems to give out the wrong date, ie instead of giving the year 2019 it gives the year as 51015, so just bear that in mind.