Time conversion between ruby on rails and javascript vice versa?

Question

How to convert ruby time to javascript time and vice versa?

Ruby on rails :

 Time.now

Javascript :

 new Date()
         


        

Answer 1

Perhaps the most reliable way is to use seconds since the epoch for ruby, and milliseconds for JavaScript.

In ruby:

t = Time.now
# => 2014-03-12 11:18:29 -0700
t.to_f * 1000 # convert to milliseconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC.
# => 1394648309130.185

This value can be directly given to the JavaScript Date constructor:

var d = new Date(1394648309130.185)
d // Wed Mar 12 2014 11:18:29 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)

d.getTime() // 1394648309130 (Fractions of a millisecond are dropped)

The output of d.getTime() divided by 1000 can be given to ruby's Time.at():

Time.at( 1394648309130 / 1000.0 )
# => 2014-03-12 11:18:29 -0700