We're working on Node-red, where we have a javascript function, where we need to format a datetime looking like this: "2019-08-12T12:10:13Z". The datetime needs to be formatted to "2019-08-12 12:10:13" as we want to store the datetime in our MySQL database as timestamp.
Basically, what we want to do, is to remove the T and Z from the datetime.
This should be fairly easy to do, but we can't find anything on this for javascript.
IMPRORTANT EDIT
Just read that Z stands for UTC, and as we're living in CEST, we want to convert the timezone from UTC to CEST...
If you want to have a special formated Date you have to use library like moment or format it yourself.
const getFormattedDate = (date) => {
return `${date.getFullYear()}-${padNumber(date.getMonth() + 1)}-${padNumber(date.getDate())} ${padNumber(date.getHours())}:${padNumber(date.getMinutes())}:${padNumber(date.getSeconds())}`;
}
const padNumber = (number) => {
return number < 10 ? "0" + number : number;
}
console.log(getFormattedDate(new Date("2019-08-02T05:01:03Z")));
Use the following script to get the current date and time using JavaScript in “Y-m-d H:i:s” format
var today = new Date();
var date = today.getFullYear()+'-'+(today.getMonth()+1)+'-'+today.getDate();
var time = today.getHours() + ":" + today.getMinutes() + ":" + today.getSeconds();
var dateTime = date+' '+time;
console.log(dateTime);
i am trying to convert a string into date type.i am giving the string value to new date().
but it's returning next day date instead of date which i am trying to convert.
var endDate = new Date("2017-03-23T23:59:59.000Z");
//end date value is now ------ Fri Mar 24 2017 05:29:59 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time).
Please suggest me how can get correct date in the format MM/DD/YYYY
This hack can help you,
var endDate = new Date("2017-03-23T23:59:59.000Z").toISOString();
it will give you,
"2017-03-23T23:59:59.000Z"
Further if you want to convert it to DD/MM/YYYY then you can use native javascript or lib like moment for that,
This simpile js will help to convert it to any format.
var endDate = new Date("2017-03-23T23:59:59.000Z").toISOString();
var d1 = endDate.split('T'); //spliting date from T
var d2 = d1[0].split('-'); //getting date part
console.log('yyyy/MM/dd', d2[0] + "/" + d2[1] + "/" + d2[2]) //YYYY/MM/DD
console.log("DD/MM/YYYY", d2[2] + "/" + d2[1] + "/" + d2[0])
jsfiddle link
if your time is in IST use below
var endDate = new Date("2017-03-23T23:59:59.00+0530");
If you check dates, you will see that your dates differs in 5h 30 mins, that is same as your date saying GMT +0530. Your original date has .000Z that is time zone of GMT +0.
Make sure you use same time zone when working with date.
Try using Date.UTC('your date')
JavaScript Date objects carry no timezone information. The only reason you saw a non-UTC date is that the browser chooses by default to display dates as local time in the console. If you don't care about the date object aligning with the exact instant in local time, you can use the following format function to turn it into MM/DD/YYYY format:
function format (date) {
var mm = ('0' + (date.getUTCMonth() + 1)).slice(-2)
var dd = ('0' + date.getUTCDate()).slice(-2)
var yyyy = date.getUTCFullYear()
return mm + '/' + dd + '/' + yyyy
}
var endDate = new Date("2017-03-23T23:59:59.000Z")
console.log(endDate.toISOString())
console.log(format(endDate))
(Credit to Ranj for posting an answer using Date#toISOString before mine.)
I have created the solution over here please find below link
https://www.w3schools.com/code/tryit.asp?filename=FD0YSGRMB59W
Date from datetimepicker have format:
var currentDate = new Date(); currentDate = Thu Jul 14 2016 09:10:04 GMT+0200 (Środkowoeuropejski czas letni) {}
And this date have methods like .getFullYear() etc.
But when I send it to my API where this date is DateTime and send back it to frontend it look that 2016-07-22T22:00:00Z and it doesn't have methods like .getFullYear() etc.
That is problem for me. I need detect if the date is formatted yyyy-mm-ddThh-mm-ssZ and convert it to the first format.
How I can do it? I can't use momentjs.
format your date string in javascript
var date = new Date();
var day = date.getDay();
var month = date.getMonth();
var year = date.getFullYear();
var hour = date.getHours();
var minute = date.getMinutes();
var second = date.getSeconds();
var datetime= day + "/" + month + "/" + year + " " + hour + ':' + minute + ':' + second;
Then in c#
DateTime.ParseExact(DatetimeString , "dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
Why you do not use this:
http://momentjs.com/
this allows all sorts if formatting and its safer to use due to incorrect dates possible
var a = moment('2016-01-01');
var b = a.add(1, 'week');
a.format();
"2016-01-08T00:00:00-06:00"
moment().format("MMM Do YY"); // Jul 14th 16
Use standard format yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss
You're possibly receiving a string from your API. So you have to parse it back to Date object
var newDateObject = new Date(dateStringFromAPI);
Then you can access newDateObject.getDay() newDateObject.getFullYear() etc
as you are using AngularJS you can simply format date with Angular's date filter https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng/filter/date
Good day to you!
Looks like the front-end doesn't parse the API-dataset to create a date-object (no date-object—no date-methods)—here is a solution:
Enable date-parsing on the front-end;
If needed, apply a date-time format on API output (MSDN-articles: Date and Time Format Strings—Standard and Custom);
Send the API-processed data to the front-end.
How can I convert a string to a date time object in javascript by specifying a format string?
I am looking for something like:
var dateTime = convertToDateTime("23.11.2009 12:34:56", "dd.MM.yyyy HH:mm:ss");
Use new Date(dateString) if your string is compatible with Date.parse(). If your format is incompatible (I think it is), you have to parse the string yourself (should be easy with regular expressions) and create a new Date object with explicit values for year, month, date, hour, minute and second.
I think this can help you: http://www.mattkruse.com/javascript/date/
There's a getDateFromFormat() function that you can tweak a little to solve your problem.
Update: there's an updated version of the samples available at javascripttoolbox.com
#Christoph Mentions using a regex to tackle the problem. Here's what I'm using:
var dateString = "2010-08-09 01:02:03";
var reggie = /(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2}) (\d{2}):(\d{2}):(\d{2})/;
var dateArray = reggie.exec(dateString);
var dateObject = new Date(
(+dateArray[1]),
(+dateArray[2])-1, // Careful, month starts at 0!
(+dateArray[3]),
(+dateArray[4]),
(+dateArray[5]),
(+dateArray[6])
);
It's by no means intelligent, just configure the regex and new Date(blah) to suit your needs.
Edit: Maybe a bit more understandable in ES6 using destructuring:
let dateString = "2010-08-09 01:02:03"
, reggie = /(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2}) (\d{2}):(\d{2}):(\d{2})/
, [, year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds] = reggie.exec(dateString)
, dateObject = new Date(year, month-1, day, hours, minutes, seconds);
But in all honesty these days I reach for something like Moment
No sophisticated date/time formatting routines exist in JavaScript.
You will have to use an external library for formatted date output, "JavaScript Date Format" from Flagrant Badassery looks very promising.
For the input conversion, several suggestions have been made already. :)
Check out Moment.js. It is a modern and powerful library that makes up for JavaScript's woeful Date functions (or lack thereof).
Just for an updated answer here, there's a good js lib at http://www.datejs.com/
Datejs is an open source JavaScript Date library for parsing, formatting and processing.
var temp1 = "";
var temp2 = "";
var str1 = fd;
var str2 = td;
var dt1 = str1.substring(0,2);
var dt2 = str2.substring(0,2);
var mon1 = str1.substring(3,5);
var mon2 = str2.substring(3,5);
var yr1 = str1.substring(6,10);
var yr2 = str2.substring(6,10);
temp1 = mon1 + "/" + dt1 + "/" + yr1;
temp2 = mon2 + "/" + dt2 + "/" + yr2;
var cfd = Date.parse(temp1);
var ctd = Date.parse(temp2);
var date1 = new Date(cfd);
var date2 = new Date(ctd);
if(date1 > date2) {
alert("FROM DATE SHOULD BE MORE THAN TO DATE");
}
time = "2017-01-18T17:02:09.000+05:30"
t = new Date(time)
hr = ("0" + t.getHours()).slice(-2);
min = ("0" + t.getMinutes()).slice(-2);
sec = ("0" + t.getSeconds()).slice(-2);
t.getFullYear()+"-"+t.getMonth()+1+"-"+t.getDate()+" "+hr+":"+min+":"+sec
External library is an overkill for parsing one or two dates, so I made my own function using Oli's and Christoph's solutions. Here in central Europe we rarely use aything but the OP's format, so this should be enough for simple apps used here.
function ParseDate(dateString) {
//dd.mm.yyyy, or dd.mm.yy
var dateArr = dateString.split(".");
if (dateArr.length == 1) {
return null; //wrong format
}
//parse time after the year - separated by space
var spacePos = dateArr[2].indexOf(" ");
if(spacePos > 1) {
var timeString = dateArr[2].substr(spacePos + 1);
var timeArr = timeString.split(":");
dateArr[2] = dateArr[2].substr(0, spacePos);
if (timeArr.length == 2) {
//minutes only
return new Date(parseInt(dateArr[2]), parseInt(dateArr[1]-1), parseInt(dateArr[0]), parseInt(timeArr[0]), parseInt(timeArr[1]));
} else {
//including seconds
return new Date(parseInt(dateArr[2]), parseInt(dateArr[1]-1), parseInt(dateArr[0]), parseInt(timeArr[0]), parseInt(timeArr[1]), parseInt(timeArr[2]))
}
} else {
//gotcha at months - January is at 0, not 1 as one would expect
return new Date(parseInt(dateArr[2]), parseInt(dateArr[1] - 1), parseInt(dateArr[0]));
}
}
Date.parse() is fairly intelligent but I can't guarantee that format will parse correctly.
If it doesn't, you'd have to find something to bridge the two. Your example is pretty simple (being purely numbers) so a touch of REGEX (or even string.split() -- might be faster) paired with some parseInt() will allow you to quickly make a date.
Just to give my 5 cents.
My date format is dd.mm.yyyy (UK format) and none of the above examples were working for me. All the parsers were considering mm as day and dd as month.
I've found this library: http://joey.mazzarelli.com/2008/11/25/easy-date-parsing-with-javascript/
and it worked, because you can say the order of the fields like this:
>>console.log(new Date(Date.fromString('09.05.2012', {order: 'DMY'})));
Wed May 09 2012 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (EEST)
I hope that helps someone.
Moment.js will handle this:
var momentDate = moment('23.11.2009 12:34:56', 'DD.MM.YYYY HH:mm:ss');
var date = momentDate.;
You can use the moment.js library for this. I am using only to get time-specific output but you can select what kind of format you want to select.
Reference:
1. moment library: https://momentjs.com/
2. time and date specific functions: https://timestamp.online/article/how-to-convert-timestamp-to-datetime-in-javascript
convertDate(date) {
var momentDate = moment(date).format('hh : mm A');
return momentDate;
}
and you can call this method like:
this.convertDate('2020-05-01T10:31:18.837Z');
I hope it helps. Enjoy coding.
To fully satisfy the Date.parse convert string to format dd-mm-YYYY as specified in RFC822,
if you use yyyy-mm-dd parse may do a mistakes.
//Here pdate is the string date time
var date1=GetDate(pdate);
function GetDate(a){
var dateString = a.substr(6);
var currentTime = new Date(parseInt(dateString ));
var month =("0"+ (currentTime.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2);
var day =("0"+ currentTime.getDate()).slice(-2);
var year = currentTime.getFullYear();
var date = day + "/" + month + "/" + year;
return date;
}
I am writing a script for automating XML data in Indesign. I currently have in the XML the date in American Format (MM/D/YY) but once I run the script in Indesign my goal is to have it be in European format (DD/M/YY). What can I add to my script in order to write a function that will convert any date formats to european formats? I hope this makes sense. I need help!
i guess simply using
function convertDate(dateString) {
var date = new Date(dateString);
return date.getDate()+"/"+(date.getMonth() + 1)+"/"+date.getFullYear();
}
just note european format does not use slashes but dots as far as i know so it should look like this
dd.mm.yyyy
not
dd/mm/yyyy
becouse it can be mismatched with us format
How to format a JavaScript date?
Return dd-mm-yyyy from Date() object
var d = new Date().toLocaleDateString("uk-Uk");
Output: 03.09.2021
var d = new Date().toLocaleDateString("en-GB");
Output: 03/09/2021
var d = new Date().toLocaleDateString("en-UK").replace(/\//g, '-');
Output: 03-09-2021
var myDate = new Date('myDateString'); //you can also do milliseconds instead of the date string
var myEuroDate = myDate.getDate() + '/' + myDate.getMonth + '/' + myDate.getFullYear();
Useful as well...
http://arshaw.com/xdate/