This docs mention moment.ISO_8601
as a formatting option (from 2.7.0 - http://momentjs.com/docs/#/parsing/special-formats/), but neither of these work (even 2.7.0):
var date = moment();
date.format(moment.ISO_8601); // error
moment.format(date, moment.ISO_8601); // error
(http://jsfiddle.net/b3d6uy05/1/)
How can I get an ISO 8601 from moment.js?
moment().toISOString(); // or format() - see below
http://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/as-iso-string/
Update
Based on the answer: by @sennet and the comment by @dvlsg (see Fiddle) it should be noted that there is a difference between format
and toISOString
. Both are correct but the underlying process differs. toISOString
converts to a Date object, sets to UTC then uses the native Date prototype function to output ISO8601 in UTC with milliseconds (YYYY-MM-DD[T]HH:mm:ss.SSS[Z]
). On the other hand, format
uses the default format (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ssZ
) without milliseconds and maintains the timezone offset.
I've opened an issue as I think it can lead to unexpected results.
Use format
with no parameters:
var date = moment();
date.format(); // "2014-09-08T08:02:17-05:00"
(http://jsfiddle.net/8gvhL1dz/)
Also possible with vanilla JS
new Date().toISOString() // "2017-08-26T16:31:02.349Z"
If you just want the date portion (e.g. 2017-06-27), and you want it to work regardless of time zone and also in Arabic, here is code I wrote:
function isoDate(date) {
if (!date) {
return null
}
date = moment(date).toDate()
// don't call toISOString because it takes the time zone into
// account which we don't want. Also don't call .format() because it
// returns Arabic instead of English
var month = 1 + date.getMonth()
if (month < 10) {
month = '0' + month
}
var day = date.getDate()
if (day < 10) {
day = '0' + day
}
return date.getFullYear() + '-' + month + '-' + day
}
When you use Mongoose to store dates into MongoDB you need to use toISOString() because all dates are stored as ISOdates with miliseconds.
moment.format()
2018-04-17T20:00:00Z
moment.toISOString() -> USE THIS TO STORE IN MONGOOSE
2018-04-17T20:00:00.000Z