Convert times created by Javascript's getTime() method to ruby Time objects

datetime, javascript, ruby, ruby-on-rails

Solution

You can use the Time.at method, and divide the JavaScript timestamp value by 1000, since the at method, uses seconds instead of milliseconds, for example:

jsTime = 1252268867928
print Time.at(jsTime/1000)
# Sun Sep 06 20:27:47 +0000 2009

Problem

Javascript's `getTime()` method returns the number of milliseconds since midnight of January 1, 1970. How do I convert the output of `getTime()` to a Ruby Time object?

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