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Using moment.js to Enhance Datetime Handling in JS

John NorwoodBy John NorwoodDecember 1, 20223 Mins Read
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In this article you will learn how to use moment.js to enhance datetime handling in JS. With many projects, dealing with datetime is inevitable. In particular, some specific projects about datetime such as booking, calendar, … require to thoroughly apply and improve the knowledge, how to calculate, and parse that the programming language provides. Moment.js is a powerful library that supports these complex tasks in JS.

Install the library

The moment.js library is supported in many browsers. In JS you can install the library with the following npm command:

npm install moment

Using moment.js to enhance datetime handling in JS

Create a moment object with a specific date and time

For a specific date and time, you can create a datetime object like this:

1. In the format “String”

const date = moment(“2022-11-25”) // Create a moment object in the format YYYY-MM-DD

const dateTime = moment(“2022-11-25 08:20:25”) // Create moment object with format YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss

You can format the Datetime in many different ways. However, in some browsers when the string is not valid, the above way of creating moment will no longer be correct and will return an error result.

You can read the article JavaScript Dates on LearnShareIT to learn more about the Date object. It also specifies Dates objects with specific formats, initialization as well as date calculation operations in JS.

So you can also perform the conversion in the ways below to increase the accuracy.

2. Convert to “String + format”

Once you know exactly what the datetime value is, you can use the string format for parsing.

moment(“November 25, 2022”, “MM-DD-YYYY”);

moment(“November 25, 2022 08:30:15”, “YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss”);

3. Convert to a Date object

Use moment to generate a string value to Date as follows:

const day = new Date(2022, 11, 25);

const dayWrapper = moment(day);

Note: dayWrapper is cloned from Date object, changes on these two objects are independent and do not affect each other.

4. Convert from array

moment([2022, 11, 25, 14, 35, 50, 125]);

// Create time object with parameters [year, month, day, hour, minute, second, millisecond]

Note: month has value from 0 – 11

Check date format

You can use .isValid() to check if the value of Dates is correct.

moment(‘2022-13-25’).isValid() //false

moment(‘2022-11-25’).isValid() //true

Calculate time from past, future (to date)

The .fromNow() method is used to retrieve a string indicating the provided time relative to the current time.

// today: 2022-11-25

moment(‘2018-11-25’).fromNow()

// “4 years ago”

moment(‘2022-11-23’).fromNow()

// “6 hours ago”

moment(‘2022-10-25’).fromNow()

// “print 1 month”

In addition, in case you set True for fromNow(), the reference system will point to the calculation result regardless of the past or the future.

moment(‘2018-11-25’).fromNow()

// “4 years”

moment(‘2022-11-23’).fromNow()

// “6 days”

moment(‘2022-10-25’).fromNow()

// “1 month”

Conclusion

In the above article, we have introduced you to the methods to use moment.js. Using moment.js to enhance datetime handling in JS will give you more ways to handle time and speed up the process. Visit the website to learn more about JavaScript and other programming languages. Thanks for reading!

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    John Norwood is best known as a technology journalist, currently at Ziddu where he focuses on tech startups, companies, and products.

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