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I was playing around with timestamps in mongoose, and noticed that it fills createdAt and updatedAt field with date like "createdAt": "2021-07-01T04:34:11.971Z". When I created my own createdAt field using Date.now, it filled it with epoch. I want to convert the epoch (1625116723801) to a Date format like the one created by timestamps. For this, I performed the following steps.

const epoch = 1625116723801
const d = Date(epoch*1000)
console.log(d)

It returned me Date like this: +053375-06-09T15:01:04.000Z

const epoch = 1625116723801
const d = Date(epoch*1000)
console.log(d)

It returned me Date like this: ** Thu Jul 01 2021 10:50:11 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time) **

How can I get the format like that of timestamps?

kaushalendra pandey
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  • You are missing `new` and you do should not multiply by 1000 since new Date needs milliseconds, and you need [toISOString](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/toISOString) `const epoch = 1625116723801; const d = new Date(epoch); console.log(d.toISOString())` – mplungjan Jul 01 '21 at 05:34

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