How do you convert a certain Date back to Javascript's full string date format?

Asked Feb 20 '19 at 08:22

Active Feb 20 '19 at 08:43

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Basically I want to turn this:

2018-10-23T08:00:00.000000000Z

into this format:

Thu Aug 22 2013 00:00:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

I looked into moment.js but it seems to provide something of the reverse. Help! Vanilla solutions preferred.

edited Feb 20 '19 at 08:24

mplungjan

asked Feb 20 '19 at 08:22

ima_prog

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Did you try `new Date(dateString)`? – Rajesh Feb 20 '19 at 08:23
I guess GMT-4 is your local Time? – Nikolaus Feb 20 '19 at 08:24
@Nikolaus im Easter US Time. This was fetched from an api and sometimes time zones are a bit different. – ima_prog Feb 20 '19 at 08:25
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@Rajesh Yes but it just gave me the original string back in console.log – ima_prog Feb 20 '19 at 08:25
For that to work in the console you need to call `.toString()` on the Date object. – Chris G Feb 20 '19 at 08:26
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`new Date('2018-10-23T08:00:00.000000000Z').toString()` ? – Expressingx Feb 20 '19 at 08:26
i see. Thanks everyone , .toString() worked. – ima_prog Feb 20 '19 at 08:29
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Note that the input timestamp format is not consistent with ECMA-262, so implementations are free to return an invalid date if they wish. Don't rely on the built–in parser. – RobG Feb 20 '19 at 08:44

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