Below is an Atom snippet I was playing with. What I want to do is insert a timestamp with a developer\'s name at the end. This is useful when multiple folks are working on the
For using momentjs here is minimal example of a snippet: http://jsfiddle.net/jasdeepkhalsa/a0m9s3rc/
HTML & JavaScript - (index.html)
<!doctype html>
<html>
<body>
<script src="http://momentjs.com/downloads/moment.min.js"></script>
<script>
(function (name) {
var date = moment().format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM'),
name = name || '< Developer Name >',
string = date + ' / ' + name;
return console.log(string);
})('Dan L');
</script>
</body>
</html>
This outputs into the browser's console:
2014-09-05 15:09 / Dan L
Note: This currently outputs to the browser's F12 developer tool's console using console.log, which you could change to output to the page with document.write in the return statement instead.
The closest you'll get to this without resorting to a library like moment.js or Date.js is by using toISOString()
new Date().toISOString()
This will print the date like this:
2014-09-05T07:15:14.840Z
The downside is that this will always print the date in UTC.
Some more options are listed here: How to format a JavaScript date - maybe you'll see something there. Based on a quick glance of the answers, what you're doing looks pretty good actually.