Date Utilities

Date Utilities is a lightweight npm package that provides various date-related utility functions to simplify common date operations in JavaScript applications.

Installation

You can install the package via npm:

npm install @namopanda/date-utility

const {
  formatDate,
  calculateDaysDiff,
  calculateMonthDiff,
  calculateYearDiff,
  convertDateFormat,
  getDayOfYear,
} = require('date-utils');

// Example usage
const date = new Date();
console.log(formatDate(date)); // Output: July 5, 2023

const startDate = new Date('2023-01-01');
const endDate = new Date('2023-12-31');
console.log(calculateDaysDiff(startDate, endDate)); // Output: 364

console.log(calculateMonthDiff(startDate, endDate)); // Output: 11

console.log(calculateYearDiff(startDate, endDate)); // Output: 0

console.log(convertDateFormat(date, 'dd-mm-yyyy')); // Output: 05-07-2023

console.log(getDayOfYear(date)); // Output: 185

Available Date Utility Functions

The following date utility functions are available in this package:

formatDate(date, format): Formats a given date object into a specific format. It uses the toLocaleDateString() method with options to format the date as a string.

calculateDaysDiff(date1, date2): Calculates the number of days between two given date objects.

calculateMonthDiff(date1, date2): Calculates the number of months between two given date objects.

calculateYearDiff(date1, date2): Calculates the number of years between two given date objects.

convertDateFormat(date, format): Converts the format of a given date object to the specified format.

getDayOfYear(date): Returns the day of the year for a given date object.

Please refer to the function descriptions in the source code for more details on their usage and return values.