current-exif-date

Get the current date as an Exif date format

const currentExifDate = require('current-exif-date');

currentExifDate(); //=> '2018:06:15 10:13:05'

According to the Exif specification (PDF), the format of DateTime, DateTimeOriginal and DateTimeDigitaized is:

"YYYY:MM:DD HH:MM:SS" with time shown in 24-hour format, and the date and time separated by one blank character

Installation

Use npm.

npm install current-exif-date

API

const currentExifDate = require('current-exif-date');

currentExifDate()

Return: string

Note that the resultant date indicates the local time.

// In Japan

new Date().toString(); //=> 'Fri Jun 15 2018 01:04:30 GMT+0900 (JST)'
new Date().toUTCString(); //=> 'Thu, 14 Jun 2018 16:04:30 GMT'

currentExifDate(); //=> '2018:06:15 01:04:30', not '2018:06:14 01:04:30 16:04:30'

License

ISC License © 2018 Shinnosuke Watanabe