easydate

get date and/or time by pattern.

A simple date and time util that returns the date according to a pattern, easydate takes two arguments, first one being a pattern string and second one being an config object.

Pattern Options:

• Y Full year (number - e.g. 2012)
• y Year (number - e.g. 12)
• M Month (number - e.g. 11)
• d Day (number - e.g. 28)
• h Hour (number - e.g. 02)
• m Minute (number - e.g. 01)
• s Second (number - e.g. 33)
• l Millisecond (number - e.g. 001)
• z Timezone (string - e.g. UTC, UTC+1, UTC-11)
• x DST (string - either 'DST' or '')

Config options:

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{
    setDate: 'Date',
    timeZone: 'utc/local',
    adjust: 'Whether or not to adjust DST'
}

Install it: npm install --save easydate

Sample usage:

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var easydate = require('easydate')


easydate('d-M-y');

easydate('h:m:s.l', '2015-11-03T16:06:08.123Z') // "16:06:08.123"

easydate('z', {timeZone: 'utc'}) // => "UTC"

easydate('h:m:s z x', {setDate: '2016-08-01T00:00:00.000Z', adjust: true})

GIF FTW!

Thanks to Rory Bradford for this handy util.