Date Formatting Support (strftime) for CommonJS + Node.js

This CommonJS module provides PHP-style date formatting support (strftime), to allow you to print javascript dates according to a format specifier.

Based heavily on Philip S Tellis' version for client side javascript.

Tested on node.js.

About this fork

This repository is a fork of this repo. I decided to fork that because I needed use of the module via NPM.

Install:

cd ~/.node_libraries
git clone https://github.com/Dis1092006/commonjs-date-formatting.git

Basic usage:

// Load the module
var strftime = require("date_format").strftime;

// Print the current date in mm/dd/yyyy format
console.log(strftime(new Date(), "%m/%d/%Y"));

Supported Format Specifiers:

• %a - abbreviated weekday name according to the current locale
• %A - full weekday name according to the current locale
• %b - abbreviated month name according to the current locale
• %B - full month name according to the current locale
• %c - preferred date and time representation for the current locale
• %C - century number (the year divided by 100 and truncated to an integer, range 00 to 99)
• %d - day of the month as a decimal number (range 01 to 31)
• %D - same as %m/%d/%y
• %e - day of the month as a decimal number, a single digit is preceded by a space (range ' 1' to '31')
• %g - like %G, but without the century
• %G - The 4-digit year corresponding to the ISO week number
• %h - same as %b
• %H - hour as a decimal number using a 24-hour clock (range 00 to 23)
• %I - hour as a decimal number using a 12-hour clock (range 01 to 12)
• %j - day of the year as a decimal number (range 001 to 366)
• %m - month as a decimal number (range 01 to 12)
• %M - minute as a decimal number
• %n - newline character
• %p - either AM' or PM' according to the given time value, or the corresponding strings for the current locale
• %P - like %p, but lower case
• %r - time in a.m. and p.m. notation equal to %I:%M:%S %p
• %R - time in 24 hour notation equal to %H:%M
• %S - second as a decimal number
• %t - tab character
• %T - current time, equal to %H:%M:%S
• %u - weekday as a decimal number [1,7], with 1 representing Monday
• %U - week number of the current year as a decimal number, starting with the first Sunday as the first day of the first week
• %V - The ISO 8601:1988 week number of the current year as a decimal number, range 01 to 53, where week 1 is the first week that has at least 4 days in the current year, and with Monday as the first day of the week.
• %w - day of the week as a decimal, Sunday being 0
• %W - week number of the current year as a decimal number, starting with the first Monday as the first day of the first week
• %x - preferred date representation for the current locale without the time
• %X - preferred time representation for the current locale without the date
• %y - year as a decimal number without a century (range 00 to 99)
• %Y - year as a decimal number including the century
• %z - numerical time zone representation
• %Z - time zone name or abbreviation
• %% - a literal `%' character