I am facing an issue while creating a function in javascript for nodeJS. basically, I am trying to create a function that helps I can change the date and time format. I can able to create the code but this code not working while I save it inside the function and return.
I want to change my date like this
var mydate = 2002-06-04 15:12:13
var newdate = formatDate(new Date(mydate), dd-MM-yyyy hh:mm:ss);
output will: 04-06-2002 01:12:13
Please help me to create the function
var monthNames = [
"January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July",
"August", "September", "October", "November", "December"
];
var dayOfWeekNames = [
"Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday",
"Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"
];
function formatDate(date, patternStr) {
if (!patternStr) {
patternStr = 'M/d/yyyy';
}
var day = date.getDate(),
month = date.getMonth(),
year = date.getFullYear(),
hour = date.getHours(),
minute = date.getMinutes(),
second = date.getSeconds(),
miliseconds = date.getMilliseconds(),
h = hour % 12,
hh = twoDigitPad(h),
HH = twoDigitPad(hour),
mm = twoDigitPad(minute),
ss = twoDigitPad(second),
aaa = hour < 12 ? 'AM' : 'PM',
EEEE = dayOfWeekNames[date.getDay()],
EEE = EEEE.substr(0, 3),
dd = twoDigitPad(day),
M = month + 1,
MM = twoDigitPad(M),
MMMM = monthNames[month],
MMM = MMMM.substr(0, 3),
yyyy = year + "",
yy = yyyy.substr(2, 2);
// checks to see if month name will be used
patternStr = patternStr
.replace('hh', hh).replace('h', h)
.replace('HH', HH).replace('H', hour)
.replace('mm', mm).replace('m', minute)
.replace('ss', ss).replace('s', second)
.replace('S', miliseconds)
.replace('dd', dd).replace('d', day)
.replace('EEEE', EEEE).replace('EEE', EEE)
.replace('yyyy', yyyy)
.replace('yy', yy)
.replace('aaa', aaa);
if (patternStr.indexOf('MMM') > -1) {
patternStr = patternStr
.replace('MMMM', MMMM)
.replace('MMM', MMM);
} else {
patternStr = patternStr
.replace('MM', MM)
.replace('M', M);
}
return patternStr;
}
function twoDigitPad(num) {
return num < 10 ? "0" + num : num;
}
console.log(formatDate(new Date()));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(), 'dd-MMM-yyyy')); //OP's request
console.log(formatDate(new Date(), 'EEEE, MMMM d, yyyy HH:mm:ss.S aaa'));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(), 'EEE, MMM d, yyyy HH:mm'));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(), 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S'));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(), 'M/dd/yyyy h:mmaaa'));there are already several libraries that can help you with these functions I would recommend using momentJS which brings all the formats that are commonly used for dates.
Here is an example
const date = new Date()
const formatDate = moment(date).format('MMMM Do YYYYY, h:mm:ss a')
which would result in jun 29th 2022, 12:55:00 pm in my time zone
you can also try many more formats in the package page https://momentjs.com/ which is very well documented