How to display a Date object in a specific format using JavaScript?

Question

I have a Date object and I\'d like to display it in the below format:

var myDate = getDate();
// this format: \"13 Jan 2012 11:00am\";

How

Answer 1

There is a great JavaScript library that handles this very well, and only 5.5kb minified.

http://momentjs.com/

It looks something like this:

moment().format('MMMM Do YYYY, h:mm:ss a'); // February 25th 2013, 9:54:04 am
moment().subtract('days', 6).calendar(); // "last Tuesday at 9:53 AM"

You can also pass in dates as a String with a format, or a Date object.

var date = new Date();
moment(date); // same as calling moment() with no args

// Passing in a string date
moment("12-25-1995", "MM-DD-YYYY");

Also has great support for languages other than English, like Russian, Japanese, Arabic, Spanish and others.

Check out the docs.