workdate

NodeJS WorkDate

A npm package is developed that allows you to return a date in a certain format.

NPM Package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/workdate

Function format

Description

string require('workDate').format( string format [, (string, array, int) settings ] );

Parameters

format

The format of the outputted date string. See the formatting options below

format character	Description	Example returned values
Day	--	--
d	Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros	01 to 31
D	A textual representation of a day, three letters	Mon through Sun
j	Day of the month without leading zeros	1 to 31
l (lowercase 'L')	A full textual representation of the day of the week	Sunday through Saturday
N	ISO-8601 numeric representation of the day of the week	1 (for Monday) through 7 (for Sunday)
w	Numeric representation of the day of the week	0 (for Sunday) through 6 (for Saturday)
z	The day of the year (starting from 0)	0 through 365
Week	--	--
W	ISO-8601 week number of year, weeks starting on Monday	Example: 42 (the 42nd week in the year)
Month	--	--
F	A full textual representation of a month, such as January or March	January through December
m	Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros	01 through 12
M	A short textual representation of a month, three letters	Jan through Dec
n	Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros	1 through 12
Year	--	--
L	Whether it's a leap year	1 if it is a leap year, 0 otherwise.
Y	A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits	Examples: 1999 or 2003
y	A two digit representation of a year	Examples: 99 or 03
Time	--	--
a	Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem	am or pm
A	Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem	AM or PM
B	Swatch Internet time	000 through 999
g	12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros	1 through 12
G	24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros	0 through 23
h	12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros	01 through 12
H	24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros	00 through 23
i	Minutes with leading zeros	00 to 59
s	Seconds, with leading zeros	00 through 59
u	Microseconds.	Example: 654321
v	Milliseconds. Same note applies as for u.	Example: 654
U	Seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT)
Timezone	--	--
e	Timezone identifier	Examples: UTC, GMT, Atlantic/Azores
I	Whether or not the date is in daylight saving time	1 if Daylight Saving Time, 0 otherwise.
O	Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours	Example: +0200
P	Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) with colon between hours and minutes	Example: +02:00
T	Timezone abbreviation	Examples: EST, MDT ...
Z	Timezone offset in seconds. The offset for timezones west of UTC is always negative, and for those east of UTC is always positive.	-43200 through 50400
Full Date/Time	--	--
c	ISO 8601 date	2004-02-12T15:19:21+00:00
r	RFC 2822 formatted date	Example: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:01:07 +0200

settings

The optional settings parameter is an integer Unix that defaults to the current local time if a timestamp is not given.

Examples

Example 1

To get the date in the format D, d M Y H:i:s You must specify the first parameter of the format Tue, 28 Au 2018 22:51:04

const workDate = require('./workDate');

console.log(

workDate.format('H:i:s d/m/Y'), '\n',

workDate.format('l jS \of F Y h:i:s A'), '\n',

workDate.format('l'), '\n',

workDate.format('l j'),

);

Example 2

console.log( workDate.format("F j, Y, g:i a") ); // March 10, 2001, 5:16 pm

console.log( workDate.format("m.d.y") ); // 03.10.01

console.log( workDate.format("j, n, Y") ); // 10, 3, 2001

console.log( workDate.format("Ymd") ); // 20010310

console.log( workDate.format('h-i-s, j-m-y, it is w Day') ); // 05-16-18, 10-03-01, 1631 1618 6 Satpm01

console.log( workDate.format("D M j G:i:s T Y") ); // Sat Mar 10 17:16:18 MST 2001

console.log( workDate.format("H:i:s") ); // 17:16:18

console.log( workDate.format("Y-m-d H:i:s") ); // 2001-03-10 17:16:18 (the MySQL DATETIME format)

Function strToTime

Description

string require('workDate').strToTime( string time [, int now ] );

The function expects to be given a string containing an English date format and will try to parse that format into a Unix timestamp (the number of seconds since January 1 1970 00:00:00 UTC), relative to the timestamp given in now, or the current time if now is not supplied.

Parameters

text

A date/time string. Valid formats are explained in Date and Time Formats.

now

The timestamp which is used as a base for the calculation of relative dates.

Returns

Returns a timestamp on success.

Examples

console.log( workDate.strToTime() );

console.log( workDate.strToTime('now') );

console.log( workDate.strToTime('10 September 2000') );

console.log( workDate.strToTime('+1 day') );

console.log( workDate.strToTime('+1 week') );

console.log( workDate.strToTime('+1 week 2 days 4 hours 2 seconds') );

console.log( workDate.strToTime('next Thursday') );

console.log( workDate.strToTime('last Monday') );