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 Easiest Way

If you have the unix epoch in milliseconds, in my case - 1601209912824

1. convert it into a Date Object as so

const dateObject = new Date(milliseconds)
const humanDateFormat = dateObject.toString() 

output -

Sun Sep 27 2020 18:01:52 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)

2. if you want the date in UTC -

const dateObject = new Date(milliseconds)
const humanDateFormat = dateObject.toUTCString() 

3. Now you can format it as you please.