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Format date in ES6

rated 0 times [ 198] [ 4] / answers: 1 / hits: 28874 / 9 Years ago, mon, august 3, 2015, 12:00:00

I am formatting a Date, with not momentjs or any other library, just pure JS. And I want to know if there is a way to simplify this with ES6

let currentDate = new Date(); 



const videosInformation = {

  time: currentDate.getHours() + ':' + currentDate.getMinutes(),

  date: (currentDate.getMonth() + 1) + '/' + currentDate.getDate() + '/' + currentDate.getFullYear(),

  gameId: Math.floor((Math.random() * 5000) + 1)

};

I saw that in the DOM you use something like renderSomething={`something: ${someObj}`}

so you don't have to do renderSomething={something: + {someObj}}

is there something I should use to do that kind of format?

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answered 9 Years ago alli · Accepted Answer

There's nothing in ES2015 that added something like strftime no. There's an ECMAScript internationalisation spec ecma-402 which enables localised time:

let [date, time] = new Date().toLocaleString('en-US').split(', ');



const videosInformation = {

  time,

  date,

  gameId: Math.floor((Math.random() * 5000) + 1)

};

Which would give you US localized 8/4/2015 and 5:29:19 PM Or if you really want a 24 hour clock:

new Date().toLocaleString('en-US', {hour12: false})

Then you can do a substring on the time if you want to strip out the seconds.

You can read more about date and time at MDT docs.