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Moment.js amDateFormat always returning date from 1970

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I'm using Moment.js and Angular-moment in my app.

For some reason it's converting all my epoch timestamps to the same date from 1970.

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<td class="timespan">{{tag.added_epoch | amDateFormat:'dddd, MMMM Do YYYY'}}</td>

This is what the tag.added_epoch value is added_epoch: 1432252800

However when I convert it online, I get the correct date:

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Any idea why my filter is turning 1432252800 into Saturday, January 17th 1970?

Solution

  • I'm just quickly summarizing the problem and solution.

    Moment.js offers two different ways to create a date from a unix timestamp moment(1432252800) and moment.unix(1432252800).

    Both start at the same time (Jan 1 1970 12AM UTC) but moment() uses the number as milliseconds, which are around 17 days and moment.unix() uses seconds.

    angular-moment supports the amFromUnix filter, see source

    You can use it the following way

    <time am-time-ago="myDate|amFromUnix">
{{myDate|amFromUnix|amCalendar}}