Here's a forecast for London, GB from the Open Weather Map in JSON format.

.5/forecast/daily?id=524901

Each list item in the JSON has a key within it called dt that looks like "dt":1399626000

I haven't done this before, so how do I figure out what format (unix timestamp?) and timezone dt is in (e.g. GMT, UTC), and how to translate the dt into a human-friendly format.

Here's a forecast for London, GB from the Open Weather Map in JSON format.

http://api.openweathermap/data/2.5/forecast/daily?id=524901

Each list item in the JSON has a key within it called dt that looks like "dt":1399626000

I haven't done this before, so how do I figure out what format (unix timestamp?) and timezone dt is in (e.g. GMT, UTC), and how to translate the dt into a human-friendly format.

• javascript
• json

• "How to translate the dt into a human-friendly format" momentjs. – Felix Kling Commented May 10, 2014 at 3:38
• possible duplicate of Convert a Unix timestamp to time in Javascript – Ayman Safadi Commented May 10, 2014 at 3:38

1 Answer 1

If I'm on the right page, the API documentation says here that it's a GMT Unix timestamp:

dt | Time of data receiving in unixtime GMT

To convert it into a human-readable format using JavaScript, see the answer to this question.