date-utils-format v0.2.0

Date Converter

Date Converter is a simple package which is meant for changing dates into a new format. It supports different date seperators as well as timestamps.

Prerequisites

This project requires NodeJS (version 6 or later) and NPM. Node and NPM are really easy to install. To make sure you have them available on your machine, try running the following command.

$ npm -v && node -v
6.4.1
v8.16.0

Installation

Run the following command to get the latest version package

npm install --save date-utils-format

Import the package

import converter from 'date-utils-format';

Usage

Transform Date

Use the transformDate function to quickly transform a given date to another format such as below where it is being changed to 'dd/MM/yyyy' from 'YYYY-MM-DD'. Please note that it doesn't matter if the 'YYYY-MM-DD' is upper or lowcase.

converter.transformDate('2022-10-05', 'YYYY-MM-DD, 'dd/MM/yyyy')

Get Date

To get the current date you can use the following command. You have the option to choose either date, time, datetime or timestamp. Examples of all of the following are below.

const date = converter.getDate('date', '-');
const time = converter.getDate('time', ':');
const datetime = converter.getDate('datetime', '-');
const timestamp = converter.getDate('timestamp');

The result will be the following from date, time, datetime and then timestamp in that order.

05-10-2022
15:12:52
05-10-2022 15-12-52
1664979172769