silly-datetime

Simple datetime formater

Install

npm

npm i silly-datetime --save

bower

bower install silly-datetime --save

Example

var sd = require('silly-datetime');
sd.format(new Date(), 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm');
// 2015-07-06 15:10

sd.fromNow(+new Date() - 2000);
// a few seconds ago

ES2015:

import {
    format,
    fromNow
} from 'silly-datetime';
format(new Date(), 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm'); // 2015-07-06 15:10
fromNow(+new Date() - 2000); // a few seconds ago

Usage

.format(datetime, format)

Format a Date object to specified format.

• datetime: Date Object
• format: formate string, default to 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss'

Format	Example	Description
YYYY	2015	4 digit year
M MM	0..12	Month number
D DD	0..31	Day of month
H HH	0..23	24 hour time
h hh	1..12	12 hour time used with a A.
a A	am pm	Post or ante meridiem
m mm	0..59	Minutes
s ss	0..59	Seconds

sd.format(new Date(), 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm');
// 2015-07-06 15:10

.fromNow(datetime)

Time from now. This is sometimes called timeago or relative time.

• datetime: Date Object

sd.fromNow(+new Date() - 2000);
// a few seconds ago

.locate(newLocale)

Changing locale globally. By default, silly-datetime comes with English locale strings.

• newLocale: locate string or locate Object

Locate string can be en (default) or zh-cn;

var datetime = +new Date() + 10 * 60 * 1000;
sd.locate('zh-cn')
sd.fromNow(datetime);
// 10分钟内

Or just pass an custom locate object with any of the key in the table below:

key	en	zh-cn
future	in %s	%s内
past	%s ago	%s前
s	a few seconds	刚刚
mm	%s minutes	%s分钟
hh	%s hours	%s小时
dd	%s days	%s天
MM	%s months	%s月
yy	%s years	%s年

sd.locate({
  past: '%s之前',
  hh: '%s小時'
});
var datetime = +new Date() + 10 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
sd.fromNow(datetime);
// 10小時之前