@wordpress/date

Date

Date module for WordPress.

Installation

Install the module

npm install @wordpress/date --save

This package assumes that your code will run in an ES2015+ environment. If you're using an environment that has limited or no support for such language features and APIs, you should include the polyfill shipped in @wordpress/babel-preset-default in your code.

API

date

Formats a date (like date() in PHP).

Related

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Time_offsets_from_UTC

Parameters

• dateFormat string: PHP-style formatting string. See php.net/date.
• dateValue Moment | Date | string | undefined: Date object or string, parsable by moment.js.
• timezone string | number | undefined: Timezone to output result in or a UTC offset. Defaults to timezone from site.

Returns

• string: Formatted date in English.

dateI18n

Formats a date (like wp_date() in PHP), translating it into site's locale.

Backward Compatibility Notice: if timezone is set to true, the function behaves like gmdateI18n.

Related

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Time_offsets_from_UTC

Parameters

• dateFormat string: PHP-style formatting string. See php.net/date.
• dateValue Moment | Date | string | undefined: Date object or string, parsable by moment.js.
• timezone string | number | boolean | undefined=: Timezone to output result in or a UTC offset. Defaults to timezone from site. Notice: boolean is effectively deprecated, but still supported for backward compatibility reasons.

Returns

• string: Formatted date.

format

Formats a date. Does not alter the date's timezone.

Parameters

• dateFormat string: PHP-style formatting string. See php.net/date.
• dateValue Moment | Date | string | undefined: Date object or string, parsable by moment.js.

Returns

• string: Formatted date.

getDate

Create and return a JavaScript Date Object from a date string in the WP timezone.

Parameters

• dateString ?string: Date formatted in the WP timezone.

Returns

• Date: Date

getSettings

Returns the currently defined date settings.

Returns

• DateSettings: Settings, including locale data.

gmdate

Formats a date (like date() in PHP), in the UTC timezone.

Parameters

• dateFormat string: PHP-style formatting string. See php.net/date.
• dateValue Moment | Date | string | undefined: Date object or string, parsable by moment.js.

Returns

• string: Formatted date in English.

gmdateI18n

Formats a date (like wp_date() in PHP), translating it into site's locale and using the UTC timezone.

Parameters

• dateFormat string: PHP-style formatting string. See php.net/date.
• dateValue Moment | Date | string | undefined: Date object or string, parsable by moment.js.

Returns

• string: Formatted date.

humanTimeDiff

Returns a human-readable time difference between two dates, like human_time_diff() in PHP.

Parameters

• from Moment | Date | string: From date, in the WP timezone.
• to Moment | Date | string | undefined: To date, formatted in the WP timezone.

Returns

• string: Human-readable time difference.

isInTheFuture

Check whether a date is considered in the future according to the WordPress settings.

Parameters

• dateValue string: Date String or Date object in the Defined WP Timezone.

Returns

• boolean: Is in the future.

setSettings

Adds a locale to moment, using the format supplied by wp_localize_script().

Parameters

• dateSettings DateSettings: Settings, including locale data.

Contributing to this package

This is an individual package that's part of the Gutenberg project. The project is organized as a monorepo. It's made up of multiple self-contained software packages, each with a specific purpose. The packages in this monorepo are published to npm and used by WordPress as well as other software projects.

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