Table visualization: accept timestamp for date/time columns (#4389)

client/app/lib/value-format.js

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import moment from 'moment/moment';
 import numeral from 'numeral';
-import { isString, isArray, isUndefined, isNil, toString } from 'lodash';
+import { isString, isArray, isUndefined, isFinite, isNil, toString } from 'lodash';
 
 numeral.options.scalePercentBy100 = false;
 
@@ -21,13 +21,22 @@ export function createTextFormatter(highlightLinks) {
   return value => toString(value);
 }
 
+function toMoment(value) {
+  if (moment.isMoment(value)) {
+    return value;
+  }
+  if (isFinite(value)) {
+    return moment(value);
+  }
+  // same as default `moment(value)`, but avoid fallback to `new Date()`
+  return moment(toString(value), [moment.ISO_8601, moment.RFC_2822]);
+}
+
 export function createDateTimeFormatter(format) {
   if (isString(format) && (format !== '')) {
     return (value) => {
-      if (value && moment.isMoment(value)) {
-        return value.format(format);
-      }
-      return toString(value);
+      const wrapped = toMoment(value);
+      return wrapped.isValid() ? wrapped.format(format) : toString(value);
     };
   }
   return value => toString(value);