How to set common format for toLocaleString?

I use JS function toLocaleString for date formatting. How can I set one common format for all clients like:

2015-10-29 20:00:00 

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4 Answers

I think you would have to manually parse it into that format, which actually isn't too bad. What Date.toLocaleString() returns is a format of:

MM/DD/YYYY, HH:MM:SS 

Here's my code snippet to help you out:

// Parse our locale string to [date, time] var date = new Date().toLocaleString('en-US',{hour12:false}).split(" "); // Now we can access our time at date[1], and monthdayyear @ date[0] var time = date[1]; var mdy = date[0]; // We then parse the mdy into parts mdy = mdy.split('/'); var month = parseInt(mdy[0]); var day = parseInt(mdy[1]); var year = parseInt(mdy[2]); // Putting it all together var formattedDate = year + '-' + month + '-' + day + ' ' + time; 

You can set the format as described (yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss) by adding the locale parameter, like this:

toLocaleString("sv-SE") 

References:

you can use moment.js library which has many features to work with date & time you can easily format a date with that.

here is an example moment().format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss'); // will print in 2015-10-29 20:00:00 format

Moment.js

before doing what i provide please read this and this

var el = document.getElementById('dbg'); var log = function(val){el.innerHTML+='<div><pre>'+val+'</pre></div>'}; var pad = function(val){ return ('00' + val).slice(-2)}; Date.prototype.myFormattedString = function(){ return this.getFullYear() + '-' + pad( (this.getMonth() + 1) ) + '-' + pad( this.getDate() ) + ' ' + pad( this.getHours() ) + ':' + pad( this.getMinutes() ) + ':' + pad( this.getSeconds() ) ; } var curDate = new Date(); log( curDate ) log( curDate.toLocaleString() ) log( curDate.myFormattedString() )

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