ng-controller

Could anyone please suggest me how to convert date from this 1387843200000 format into this 24/12/2013 inside my controller ? Just FYI my dates are stored in this way & when binding to edit form with input type="date" field is not being populated at all. #Plunker demo here. EditCtrl app.controller("EditCtrl", [ "$scope", "$filter", "db" function ($scope, $filter, db){ // this gets me an item object var item = db.readItem(); // item date = 1387843200000 // this returns undefined item.date = $filter('date')(date[ item.date, "dd/MM/yyyy"]); }]); Edit.html - template <form name="editForm" class=

What is the easiest way to pass an AngularJS scope variable from directive to controller? All of the examples that I've seen seem so complex, isn't there a way I can access a controller from a directive, and set one of it's scope variables? Edited on 2014/8/25: Here was where I forked it. Thanks @anvarik. Here is the JSFiddle . I forgot where I forked this. But this is a good example showing you the difference between = and @ <div ng-controller="MyCtrl"> <h2>Parent Scope</h2> <input ng-model="foo"> <i>// Update to see how parent scope interacts with component scope</i> <br><br> <!-- attribute