dateLibJS

datelibjs

Library to make some of the Date object functionality easier to use in javascript utilizing many getters and a few class methods.

Initialize

const dateObject = require('datelibjs')

Getters

example = new dateObject(1991, 10, 7)

year - returns the full year of the date.

example.year //1991

yr - returns the short year of the date.

example.yr //91

month - returns the full month of the date.

example.month //November

mon - returns shorthand month of the date.

example.mon //Nov

day - returns the full weekday of the date.

example.day //Thursday

dy - returns the shorthand weekday.

example.dy //Thu

date - returns the numbered date of the month.

example.date //7

hours - returns the hour (from 0-23) of the day.

mins - returns minutes.

secs - returns seconds.

padDate, padHours, padMins, PadSecs - returns a padded representation if a single digit number would be returned.

example.padDate //07

ordinal - returns the ordinal representation of the date.

example.ordinal //7th

Class Methods

format(mask) - returns a formatted string of the date. The format is based on the mask passed in as a string parameter.

List of formatting characters:

'Y' -> 2019 (Year full) 'y' -> 19 (Year short) 'M' -> July (Month full) 'm' -> Jul (Month short) 'D' -> 01 (date padded) 'd' -> 1 (date) 'H' -> 05 (Hours padded) 'h' -> 5 (Hours) 'I' -> 08 (Minutes padded) 'i' -> 8 (Minutes) 'S' -> 04 (Seconds padded) 's' -> 4 (Seconds) 'W' -> Thursday (Day full) 'w' -> Thu (Day short) 'o' -> 7th (ordinal)

any character other than the ones listed above will be left unaltered.

example.format("Y, o -> M") -> 1991, 7th -> November

when() - returns a description of how far away a date is from now. Will always return largest unit of measurement. (years > months > days > hours > mins > seconds )

example.when() -> "31 years ago" //as of the time of writing