time-stamp
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The time-stamp npm package is designed to create formatted timestamps. It allows users to generate timestamps based on the current date and time in a customizable format. This can be particularly useful for logging, file naming, or any other scenario where time-based identifiers are needed.
Generating current date in default format
By default, time-stamp can generate the current date in the 'YYYY/MM/DD' format. This is useful for quickly obtaining a standardized date format without any configuration.
"YYYY/MM/DD"Custom formatting of date and time
time-stamp allows for custom formatting of the date and time, enabling users to specify the exact format they need. This feature supports a wide range of tokens for years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds.
"YYYY:MM:DD HH:mm:ss.ms"Moment.js is a comprehensive date handling library that allows for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. Compared to time-stamp, Moment.js offers a broader set of functionalities for dealing with dates and times, including support for time zones and localization.
date-fns provides a collection of simple, pure functions for performing various operations on dates. It's modular, allowing users to pick and choose which functions they need. While time-stamp focuses on generating timestamps, date-fns offers more general-purpose date manipulation and formatting capabilities.
Day.js is a lightweight date library that offers a similar API to Moment.js. It's designed to be immutable and chainable, making it easy to parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates and times. Compared to time-stamp, Day.js provides a more comprehensive solution for date handling while maintaining a small footprint.
Get a formatted timestamp.
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Install with npm:
$ npm install --save time-stamp
const timestamp = require('time-stamp');
console.log(timestamp());
//=> 2018-10-26
console.log(timestamp.utc());
//=> 2018-10-26
You may also pass a string to format the generated timestamp.
console.log(timestamp('YYYYMMDD'));
//=> 20181026
console.log(timestamp.utc('YYYYMMDD'));
//=> 20181026
Supported patterns
YYYY: full year (ex: 2018)MM: month (ex: 04)DD: day (ex: 01)HH: hours (ex: 12)mm: minutes (ex: 59)ss: seconds (ex: 09)ms: milliseconds (ex: 532)Usage Examples
console.log(timestamp('YYYYMMDD'));
//=> 20181026
console.log(timestamp.utc('YYYYMMDD'));
//=> 20181026
console.log(timestamp('YYYYMMDD:ss'));
//=> 20181026:24
console.log(timestamp.utc('YYYYMMDD:ss'));
//=> 20181026:24
console.log(timestamp('YYYY/MM/DD:mm:ss'));
//=> 2018/10/26:46:24
console.log(timestamp.utc('YYYY/MM/DD:mm:ss'));
//=> 2018/10/26:46:24
console.log(timestamp('YYYY:MM:DD'));
//=> 2018:10:26
console.log(timestamp.utc('YYYY:MM:DD'));
//=> 2018:10:26
console.log(timestamp('[YYYY:MM:DD]'));
//=> [2018:10:26]
console.log(timestamp.utc('[YYYY:MM:DD]'));
//=> [2018:10:26]
console.log(timestamp('YYYY/MM/DD'));
//=> 2018/10/26
console.log(timestamp.utc('YYYY/MM/DD'));
//=> 2018/10/26
console.log(timestamp('YYYY:MM'));
//=> 2018:10
console.log(timestamp.utc('YYYY:MM'));
//=> 2018:10
console.log(timestamp('YYYY'));
//=> 2018
console.log(timestamp.utc('YYYY'));
//=> 2018
console.log(timestamp('MM'));
//=> 10
console.log(timestamp.utc('MM'));
//=> 10
console.log(timestamp('DD'));
//=> 26
console.log(timestamp.utc('DD'));
//=> 26
console.log(timestamp('HH'));
//=> 00
console.log(timestamp.utc('HH'));
//=> 04
console.log(timestamp('mm'));
//=> 46
console.log(timestamp.utc('mm'));
//=> 46
console.log(timestamp('ss'));
//=> 24
console.log(timestamp.utc('ss'));
//=> 24
console.log(timestamp('ms'));
//=> 186
console.log(timestamp.utc('ms'));
//=> 186
Breaking changes
Default pattern was changed from YYYY:MM:DD to YYYY-MM-DD. See issues/3 for more details.
Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.
Running and reviewing unit tests is a great way to get familiarized with a library and its API. You can install dependencies and run tests with the following command:
$ npm install && npm test
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