dateformat-light

A node.js package for Steven Levithan's excellent dateFormat() function.

Modifications

1.3.2

• Fix issue when applying function in Safari to strings missing timezone designator.

1.3.1

• Fix issue with formatting the number 0. See felixge#79

1.3.0

• Add placeholder 'p' to format timezone with colon

1.2.1

• Fix problem with format 'L' and milliseconds over 995. See felixge#89

1.2.0

• Add ability to localize AM/PM strings

1.1.0

• Add placeholder 'VV' for zero-padded variant of ISO 8601 week number

1.0.14

• Lazy evaluation of more expensive placeholders to improve performance in most cases where these placeholders are not used.
• Allow both "" and '' for literals

1.0.13

• Add placeholder 'G' for week year according to ISO 8601.
• Add placeholder 'V' for week number according to ISO 8601
• Removed CLI and fixed AMD include definition

1.0.11

• Removed the Date.prototype.format method. Sorry folks, but extending native prototypes is for suckers.
• Added a module.exports = dateFormat; statement at the bottom
• Added the placeholder N to get the ISO 8601 numeric representation of the day of the week

Installation

$ npm install dateformat-light

Usage

As taken from Steven's post, modified to match the Modifications listed above:

var dateFormat = require('dateformat');
var now = new Date();

// Basic usage
dateFormat(now, "dddd, mmmm dS, yyyy, h:MM:ss TT");
// Saturday, June 9th, 2007, 5:46:21 PM

// You can use one of several named masks
dateFormat(now, "isoDateTime");
// 2007-06-09T17:46:21

// ...Or add your own
dateFormat.masks.hammerTime = 'HH:MM! "Can\'t touch this!"';
dateFormat(now, "hammerTime");
// 17:46! Can't touch this!

// You can also provide the date as a string
dateFormat("Jun 9 2007", "fullDate");
// Saturday, June 9, 2007

// Note that if you don't include the mask argument,
// dateFormat.masks.default is used
dateFormat(now);
// Sat Jun 09 2007 17:46:21

// And if you don't include the date argument,
// the current date and time is used
dateFormat();
// Sat Jun 09 2007 17:46:22

// You can also skip the date argument (as long as your mask doesn't
// contain any numbers), in which case the current date/time is used
dateFormat("longTime");
// 5:46:22 PM EST

// And finally, you can convert local time to UTC time. Simply pass in
// true as an additional argument (no argument skipping allowed in this case):
dateFormat(now, "longTime", true);
// 10:46:21 PM UTC

// ...Or add the prefix "UTC:" or "GMT:" to your mask.
dateFormat(now, "UTC:h:MM:ss TT Z");
// 10:46:21 PM UTC

// You can also get the ISO 8601 week of the year:
dateFormat(now, "W");
// 42

// You can also get the ISO 8601 week year:
dateFormat(now, "G");
// 2007

// and also get the ISO 8601 numeric representation of the day of the week:
dateFormat(now,"N");
// 6

Mask options

Mask	Description
d	Day of the month as digits; no leading zero for single-digit days.
dd	Day of the month as digits; leading zero for single-digit days.
ddd	Day of the week as a three-letter abbreviation.
dddd	Day of the week as its full name.
m	Month as digits; no leading zero for single-digit months.
mm	Month as digits; leading zero for single-digit months.
mmm	Month as a three-letter abbreviation.
mmmm	Month as its full name.
yy	Year as last two digits; leading zero for years less than 10.
yyyy	Year represented by four digits.
h	Hours; no leading zero for single-digit hours (12-hour clock).
hh	Hours; leading zero for single-digit hours (12-hour clock).
H	Hours; no leading zero for single-digit hours (24-hour clock).
HH	Hours; leading zero for single-digit hours (24-hour clock).
M	Minutes; no leading zero for single-digit minutes.
MM	Minutes; leading zero for single-digit minutes.
N	ISO 8601 numeric representation of the day of the week.
o	GMT/UTC timezone offset, e.g. -0500 or +0230.
p	GMT/UTC timezone offset, e.g. -05:00 or +02:30.
s	Seconds; no leading zero for single-digit seconds.
ss	Seconds; leading zero for single-digit seconds.
S	The date's ordinal suffix (st, nd, rd, or th). Works well with d.
l	Milliseconds; gives 3 digits.
L	Milliseconds; gives 2 digits.
t	Lowercase, single-character time marker string: a or p.
tt	Lowercase, two-character time marker string: am or pm.
T	Uppercase, single-character time marker string: A or P.
TT	Uppercase, two-character time marker string: AM or PM.
W	ISO 8601 week number of the year, e.g. 42
V	ISO 8601 week number of the year, e.g. 42
VV	ISO 8601 week number of the year with leading zero for single-digit weeks, e.g. 09
G	ISO 8601 week year. Previous year for last days of last week and next year for first days of first week.
Z	US timezone abbreviation, e.g. EST or MDT. With non-US timezones or in the
'...', "..."	Literal character sequence. Surrounding quotes are removed.
UTC:	Must be the first four characters of the mask. Converts the date from local time to UTC/GMT/Zulu time before applying the mask. The "UTC:" prefix is removed.

Named Formats

Name	Mask	Example
default	ddd mmm dd yyyy HH:MM:ss	Sat Jun 09 2007 17:46:21
shortDate	m/d/yy	6/9/07
mediumDate	mmm d, yyyy	Jun 9, 2007
longDate	mmmm d, yyyy	June 9, 2007
fullDate	dddd, mmmm d, yyyy	Saturday, June 9, 2007
shortTime	h:MM TT	5:46 PM
mediumTime	h:MM:ss TT	5:46:21 PM
longTime	h:MM:ss TT Z	5:46:21 PM EST
isoDate	yyyy-mm-dd	2007-06-09
isoTime	HH:MM:ss	17:46:21
isoDateTime	yyyy-mm-dd'T'HH:MM:sso	2007-06-09T17:46:21+0700
isoUtcDateTime	UTC:yyyy-mm-dd'T'HH:MM:ss'Z'	2007-06-09T22:46:21Z

Localization

Day names, month names and the AM/PM indicators can be localized by passing an object with the necessary strings. For example:

var dateFormat = require('dateformat');
dateFormat.i18n = {
    dayNames: [
        'Sun', 'Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri', 'Sat',
        'Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday'
    ],
    monthNames: [
        'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec',
        'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December'
    ],
    timeNames: [
        'a', 'p', 'am', 'pm', 'A', 'P', 'AM', 'PM'
    ]
};

It is possible to just override one of the arrays, and if you like to reset to the default just set i18n to null or empty object

var dateFormat = require('dateformat');
dateFormat.i18n = null;

License

(c) 2007-2009 Steven Levithan stevenlevithan.com, MIT license.