Bitfinex get credits and convert timestamp to JS Date

Question

I'm fetching my active credits in BFX and trying to discover when I'll have my funding back. This is a response example:

/v1/credits

[{
    amount: "294.4316181",
    currency: "USD",
    id: 15778083,
    period: 2,
    rate: "16.816",
    status: "ACTIVE",
    timestamp: "1454846632.0"
}, ...
]

But new Date(1454846632.0) returns a very old date, what makes me think this timestamp isn't there to be converted into a real date at all.

I am doing something wrong? How can I discover the remaining time of a credit I provided?

Answer 1

The problem is not with the timestamp, it's with your method of converting the timestamp to local time.

As this SO question describes, convert it this way:

var dt = new Date(0);
dt.setUTCSeconds(1454846632);
console.log(dt.toString());

Which prints Sun Feb 07 2016 07:03:52 GMT-0500 (EST).