How to get current time with jQuery

Question

The following returns time in microseconds, for example 4565212462.

alert( $.now() );

How do I convert it to a human readable time format,

Answer 1

Convert a Date object to an string, using one of Date.prototype's conversion getters, for example:

var d = new Date();
d+'';                  // "Sun Dec 08 2013 18:55:38 GMT+0100"
d.toDateString();      // "Sun Dec 08 2013"
d.toISOString();       // "2013-12-08T17:55:38.130Z"
d.toLocaleDateString() // "8/12/2013" on my system
d.toLocaleString()     // "8/12/2013 18.55.38" on my system
d.toUTCString()        // "Sun, 08 Dec 2013 17:55:38 GMT"

Or, if you want it more customized, see the list of Date.prototype's getter methods.