My company is using date-fns and I'm trying to set a variable equal to the current date + time. We must use date-fns, and the format is specified to be 'YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.dddddd'.
How can I do this? I tried simply format(new Date(), 'YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss:dddddd'), but that was not working as expected.
(Also what is the 'T' for? Just to specify that a time measurement will follow? And what are the d's?)
Thanks!!
Your pattern is not correct e.g. you need
y instead of Yd instead of DH instead of hetc. Check this page to learn more about these letters.
Demo:
const fns = require('date-fns')
console.log(fns.format(new Date(), "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS"))
Output from a sample run:
2021-08-03T19:43:08.891
(Note: Click Console on the bottom right of the ONLINE DEMO page.)
(Also what is the 'T' for? Just to specify that a time measurement will follow?
Correct. It is a separator for date and time as per ISO-8601 standards.