Evaluating two epochs - Angular

Question

I've tried evaluating an epoch with another epoch using < but it always returns true or false, which is wrong. I converted them both to dates, but the same issue happens where its all either true or false based on if I use < or > Some are should be true and some should be false.

auctionHasEnded(auctionEndDate: Date) {
    let date: Date;
    date = new Date();
    return new Date(auctionEndDate) < date;
  }


 <td [ngStyle]="{'width': '55%'}" id="dateReceived" class="tableStyle" mat-cell *matCellDef="let row">
              <span id="endDateTimeLabel" [ngStyle]="{'color':row.auctionEndDateTime  > this.today ? 'red' : 'green' }">
                {{auctionHasEnded(row.auctionEndDateTime)}}</span></td>
          </ng-container>

auctionEndDateTime examples from JSON response: 1576779848, 1577379500, 1578069935, 1577999303

If I have an epoch, how can I evaluate it? I thought converting it to a date and comparing it to a new Date() would be the way to go, but it doesn't seem to evaluating correctly. I appreciate any help.

Answer 1

In order to check the times you can convert today time to epoch just like that:

this.today = +(new Date()/1000) // divide by 1000 to get seconds
1576779848 < this.today // true

Date in JS is by milliseconds as you can see here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date