jquery-dateFormat - jQuery Plugin to format Date outputs using JavaScript - Having less than 5kb, jquery-dateFormat is the smallest date format library available!

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Installation¶ ↑

Download latest jquery.dateFormat.js or jquery.dateFormat.min.js.

• jquery-dateFormat.js

• jquery-dateFormat.min.js

• dateFormat.js (pure Javascript, no jQuery dependency)

• dateFormat.min.js (pure Javascript, no jQuery dependency)

You can use jquery-dateFormat without jQuery. You just need to import the dateFormat.js above and instead of formatting with $.format(…) you should use DateFormat.format(…).

If you use jQuery Validate plugin you must use jquery-dateFormat without jQuery.

Format patterns¶ ↑

The patterns to formatting are based on java.text.SimpleDateFormat.

Date and time patterns¶ ↑

• yy = short year

• yyyy = long year

• M = month (1-12)

• MM = month (01-12)

• MMM = month abbreviation (Jan, Feb … Dec)

• MMMM = long month (January, February … December)

• d = day (1 - 31)

• dd = day (01 - 31)

• ddd = day of the week in words (Monday, Tuesday … Sunday)

• E = short day of the week in words (Mon, Tue … Sun)

• D - Ordinal day (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 31st, 4th…)

• h = hour in am/pm (0-12)

• hh = hour in am/pm (00-12)

• H = hour in day (0-23)

• HH = hour in day (00-23)

• mm = minute

• ss = second

• SSS = milliseconds

• a = AM/PM marker

• p = a.m./p.m. marker

Expected input dates formats¶ ↑

• 1982-10-15T01:10:20+02:00

• 1982-10-15T01:10:20Z

• Thu Oct 15 01:10:20 CET 1982

• 1982-10-15 01:10:20.546

• Thu Oct 15 1982 01:10:20 GMT-0800 (PST)

• Thu Oct 15 1982 01:10:20 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

• Thu Oct 15 1982 01:10:20 GMT+0200 (W. Europe Daylight Time)

• 1982-10-15CET01:10:20

• JavaScript: new Date().getTime()

Some examples.

Usage¶ ↑

<script>
  document.write($.format.date("2009-12-18 10:54:50.546", "Test: dd/MM/yyyy"));
  document.write($.format.date("Wed Jan 13 10:43:41 CET 2010", "dd~MM~yyyy"));
</script>

Output¶ ↑

=> Test: 18/12/2009
=> 13~01~2010

Formatting using css classes¶ ↑

<span class="shortDateFormat">2009-12-18 10:54:50.546</span>
<span class="longDateFormat">2009-12-18 10:54:50.546</span>

jQuery(function() {
    var shortDateFormat = 'dd/MM/yyyy';
    var longDateFormat  = 'dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss';

    jQuery(".shortDateFormat").each(function (idx, elem) {
        if (jQuery(elem).is(":input")) {
            jQuery(elem).val(jQuery.format.date(jQuery(elem).val(), shortDateFormat));
        } else {
            jQuery(elem).text(jQuery.format.date(jQuery(elem).text(), shortDateFormat));
        }
    });
    jQuery(".longDateFormat").each(function (idx, elem) {
        if (jQuery(elem).is(":input")) {
            jQuery(elem).val(jQuery.format.date(jQuery(elem).val(), longDateFormat));
        } else {
            jQuery(elem).text(jQuery.format.date(jQuery(elem).text(), longDateFormat));
        }
    });
});

Output¶ ↑

=> 18/12/2009
=> 18/12/2009 10:54:50

Pretty date formatting¶ ↑

jQuery.format.prettyDate(value) returns a string representing how long ago the date represents

• value = String representing ISO time or date in milliseconds or javascript Date object

jQuery.format.prettyDate(new Date())             // => "just now"
jQuery.format.prettyDate(new Date().getTime())   // => "just now"
jQuery.format.prettyDate("2008-01-28T20:24:17Z") // => "2 hours ago"
jQuery.format.prettyDate("2008-01-27T22:24:17Z") // => "Yesterday"
jQuery.format.prettyDate("2008-01-26T22:24:17Z") // => "2 days ago"
jQuery.format.prettyDate("2008-01-14T22:24:17Z") // => "2 weeks ago"
jQuery.format.prettyDate("2007-12-15T22:24:17Z") // => "more than 5 weeks ago"

toBrowserTimeZone¶ ↑

jQuery.format.toBrowserTimeZone(value, format) converts into browsers timezone.

• value = String representing date in ISO time (“2013-09-14T23:22:33Z”) or String representing default JAXB formatting of java.util.Date (“2013-09-14T16:22:33.527-07:00”) or String representing Unix Timestamp (Sat Sep 14 2013 16:22:33 GMT-0700 (PDT)) or javascript date object.

• format = All input formats valid for jQuery.format.date are valid for this method. The defaut format is MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss.

Valid input formats¶ ↑

var date1 = "2013-09-14T23:22:33Z";
var date2 = "2013-09-14T16:22:33.527-07:00";
var date3 = "Sat Sep 14 2013 16:22:33 GMT-0700 (PDT)";

$.format.toBrowserTimeZone(date1)
$.format.toBrowserTimeZone(date2)
$.format.toBrowserTimeZone(date3)

Development¶ ↑

To compile jquery-dateFormat (generate dist files):

$ grunt compile

Testing¶ ↑

Tests are written using Jasmine. To run the test suite with PhantomJS, run ‘$ grunt test`. To run the test suite in your default browser, run `$ grunt test:browser`.

Licenses¶ ↑

jquery-dateFormat is released under the MIT License.

Do you want to improve jquery-dateFormat¶ ↑

You’re welcome to make your contributions and send them as a pull request.

Contributors¶ ↑

Thanks to all contributors.