What is the proper way to format a UNIX timestamp into a human date in Kendo UI Grid? - date

Question

Well there seems to be a multitude of similar questions, but none that I can find answering this specific question.. so here goes..
Have a working Kendo UI grid. My datasource is returning a timestamp - here's the JSON response coming back to the code:
You'll notice that the next line is also a date.. returned by MySQL as a standard DateTime format - which I would be happy to use directly. But I've converted the date to a timestamp which I thought would be more universal. (??)
Now I need to do two things - format the timestamp into a readable date and edit the date so it can be saved back to the datasource. But let's tackle formatting first.
My code to display the column currently looks like this:
{ title: "Trial<br>Date",
field: "customer_master_converted_to_customer_date",
format: "{0:d/M/yyyy}",
attributes: {
style: "text-align: center; font-size: 14px;"
},
filterable: true,
headerAttributes: {
style: "font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px;"
}
},
Although I've tried..
toString(customer_master_converted_to_customer_date, "MM/dd/yyyy")
.. and several variations of that - in terms of format string. And yes, I've tried entering:
type: "date",
No matter what I do, I only get the timestamp.
Anyone?

Answer 1

You need to convert the timestamp to a JavaScript date first. Here is a sample implementation:
$("#grid").kendoGrid({
dataSource: {
data: [
{ date: 1371848019 }
],
schema: {
model: {
fields: {
date: {
type: "date",
parse: function(value) {
return new Date(value * 1000);
}
}
}
}
}
}
});
Here is it live: http://jsbin.com/utonil/1/edit

Answer 2

I just had the same problem and i tried this and now works perfectly, good luck.
template :#= kendo.toString(new Date(parseInt(dateOfBirth)), 'yyyy-MM-dd')#"
whre dateOfBirth is the date to format, the result will be like this : 2015-09-11.
good luck.

Answer 3

Thank you #Atanas Korchev, that worked for me, here is what I ended up doing:
// in datasource
schema:{
model: {
fields: {
date: { type: "date",
parse: function(value) {
return new Date(value);
}
}, // … other fields
// in columns
columns: [
{
field: "date",
title: "Date",
type: "date",
format: "{0:dd MMM yyyy}"
},
// ... other columns
]

Answer 4

The easiest way to use the TimeStamp format data from your database for KendoGrid.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/67106362/5671943
<kendo-grid-column class="CreatedAt" field="CreatedAt" title="title"
[width]="120" [headerStyle]="{'background-color': '#36455a','color': '#fff'}"
[style]="{'background-color': '#36455a','color': '#fff'}">
<ng-template kendoGridCellTemplate let-dataItem>
{{dataItem.CreatedAt | date:"yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss"}}
</ng-template>
</kendo-grid-column>