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CarolineS
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7 years ago

Freemarker "date" to Unix timestamp?

Hi ya'll!   I'm attempting to implement a snippet of Javascript code within my community's page wrapper; the snippet requires the user's registration date in 10-digit-timestamp form.   I'm able t...
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CarolineS
Boss

Thank you very much, VikasB! I hadn't found the datesupport library in my searches - how very helpful!

 

Unfortunately, though, I can't get it to work.

${datesupport.parseAsIso8601(user.registrationTime)}

gives me 

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</div>

Note that

${user.registrationTime}

DOES work to give me the user's registration time (sample result: Tue Mar 20 14:31:45 PDT 2018)

 

Do I need to do something special to enable datesupport?

 

Thanks!

CarolineS's avatar
CarolineS
Boss
7 years ago

Ok, so user.registrationTime gives me a string formatted like this: "Wed Jun 14 15:37:14 PDT 2017" - which is not ISO format (example ISO format: 2017-06-14T15:37:14-07:00).

 

How can I turn the string that user.registrationTime gives me into ISO format (or just directly into milliseconds since the epoch...)