Folks,
I am trying to understand the MomentJS API. What is the appropriate way to get the current time on the machine?
var CurrentDate = moment();
vs
var CurrentDate = moment().format();
Trying to parse their docs, and its not apparent what to use.
http://momentjs.com/docs/#/query/is-a-moment/
Here you are assigning an instance of momentjs to CurrentDate:
var CurrentDate = moment();
Here just a string, the result from default formatting of a momentjs instance:
var CurrentDate = moment().format();
And here the number of seconds since january of... well, unix timestamp:
var CurrentDate = moment().unix();
And here another string as ISO 8601 (What's the difference between ISO 8601 and RFC 3339 Date Formats?):
var CurrentDate = moment().toISOString();
And this can be done too:
var a = moment();
var b = moment(a.toISOString());
console.log(a.isSame(b)); // true
moment().unix()
you will get a unix timestamp
moment().valueOf()
you will get a full timestamp
Still, no answer.
Moment.js - Can do anything but such a simple task.
I'm using this:
moment().toDate().getTime()
Try to use it this way:
var current_time = new moment().format("HH:mm");
If you just want the milliseconds since 01-JAN-1970, then you can use
var theMoment = moment(); // or whatever your moment instance is
var millis;
millis = +theMoment; // a short but not very readable form
// or
millis = theMoment.valueOf();
// or (almost sure not as efficient as above)
millis = theMoment.toDate().getTime();
Try this
console.log(moment().format("MM ddd, YYYY hh:mm:ss a"));
console.log(moment().format("MM ddd, YYYY hh:mm:ss a"));
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.22.1/moment.min.js"></script>
Try this way:
console.log(moment().format('L'));
moment().format('L'); // 05/25/2018
moment().format('l'); // 5/25/2018
Format Dates:
moment().format('MMMM Do YYYY, h:mm:ss a'); // May 25th 2018, 2:02:13 pm
moment().format('dddd'); // Friday
moment().format("MMM Do YY"); // May 25th 18
moment().format('YYYY [escaped] YYYY'); // 2018 escaped 2018
moment().format(); // 2018-05-25T14:02:13-05:00
Visit: https://momentjs.com/ for more info.
Get by Location:
moment.locale('pt-br')
return moment().format('DD/MM/YYYY HH:mm:ss')