easydate

easydate

Returns the date according to a pattern.

Installation

$ npm install easydate

Test:

$ npm test

Usage/API

easydate(patternString, [inputDate])

The single exported function has two arguments. The first and only required argument is the pattern string (see Pattern Options below). If only including the pattern string it will return a formatted string for the current date-time, if the optional input date string is supplied, that particular date will be returned formatted. This input date string must be parseable by JavaScript's Date.parse function; see below for acceptable examples.

Examples:

var easydate = require('easydate');

// current date/time
easydate('d-M-y'); // "28-01-14"
easydate('d/M/Y'); // "28/01/2014"
easydate('Y.M.d'); // "2014.01.28"
easydate('M'); // "01"
easydate('d-M-Y @ h:m:s.l'); // "29-01-2014 @ 07:22:37.418"

// specified date/time
easydate('d-M-Y @ h:m', '2015-11-03T16:06:00.000Z'); // "03-11-2015 @ 16:06"
easydate('h:m:s.l', '2015-11-03T16:06:08.123Z'); // "16:06:08.123"
easydate('M~d~Y', '03-01-2017'); // "03~01~2017"

Pattern Options

Case sensitive.

• Y Full year (nnnn)
• y Year (nn)
• M Month (nn)
• d Day (nn)
• h Hour (nn)
• m Minute (nn)
• s Second (nn)
• l Millisecond (nnn)

Caveats

Any instances of the above characters will be replaced with the relevant numbers. It is recommended to not use words within the pattern string.

License

MIT