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moment.js: how to get short date format?

rated 0 times [ 63] [ 1] / answers: 1 / hits: 18996 / 9 Years ago, thu, december 10, 2015, 12:00:00

My application sends an HTML file with javascript like this:

$(function () {

    moment.locale('fr');

    $('#datetimepicker9').datetimepicker({

        viewMode: 'years',

        locale: 'fr',

        format: '' /* <========= problem! */

    });

});

With moment, when I set to a locale, is there a way to get the short date format of the configuration like 'j F Y' for fr?

I found it but it's hack-ish:

moment()['_locale']['_longDateFormat']['L']

So my code now:

$(function () {

    moment.locale('fr');

    $('#datetimepicker9').datetimepicker({

        viewMode: 'years',

        locale: 'fr',

        format: moment()['_locale']['_longDateFormat']['L']

    });

});

I dont like that, is there a clean way to get the format?

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answered 9 Years ago jaidyn · Accepted Answer

You can retrieve locale-specific format strings with the longDateFormat() of the current localeData():

moment.locale('fr');



var localeData = moment.localeData();

var dateFormat = localeData.longDateFormat('LL');



console.log(dateFormat); // D MMMM YYYY