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moment.js - change format of already formatted past date

rated 0 times [ 168] [ 5] / answers: 1 / hits: 23545 / 11 Years ago, wed, november 6, 2013, 12:00:00

I need to get a past date with moment.js (http://momentjs.com/) which I receive in specific format:

moment('31.10.2013', 'dd.mm.yy');

That returns me a strange response where I see a current date in _d option:

// returns

_a: Array[7]

_d: Wed Nov 06 2013 00:10:00 GMT+0200 (EET)

_f: dd.mm.yy

_i: 26.10.2013

_isUTC: false

_l: undefined

_pf: Object

_strict: undefined

I assume that is the problem when I do formatting:

moment('31.10.2013', 'dd.mm.yy').format('YYYY/MM/DD');

// returns current date (why??!)

// 2013/11/06

So what is wrong here, could I format the past date?

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answered 11 Years ago miles · Accepted Answer

At first I thought it was the format, but it was actually the format in, lower case means something different than uppercase both in and out.

moment('31.10.2013', 'DD.MM.YYYY').format('YYYY/MM/DD')

>> 2013/10/31



moment('31.10.2013', 'dd.mm.yyyy').format('YYYY/MM/DD')

>> 2013/11/06

So fix your input mask, not the format.