title: What is the proper way to format a UNIX timestamp into a human date in Kendo UI Grid?
body: <p>Well there seems to be a multitude of similar questions, but none that I can find answering this specific question.. so here goes.. </p>
  
  <p>Have a working Kendo UI grid.  My datasource is returning a timestamp - here's the JSON response coming back to the code:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/aWyRK.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>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.  (??)</p>
  
  <p>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.</p>
  
  <p>My code to display the column currently looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    {   title: "Trial&lt;br&gt;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;"
      }
  },
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Although I've tried.. </p>
  
  <pre><code>    toString(customer_master_converted_to_customer_date, "MM/dd/yyyy")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>.. and several variations of that - in terms of format string.  And yes, I've tried entering:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    type: "date",
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>No matter what I do, I only get the timestamp.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/2flpZ.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Anyone?</p>