Lightweight Datetime Formatter In JavaScript – tinydate

tinydate is an extremely lightweight (0.3 kb minified) JavaScript library used for formatting date/time strings using pure JavaScript.

How to use it:

Install the tinydate package & import the module.

# NPM
$ npm install tinydate --save

import tinydate from 'tinydate';

Or directly import the tinydate library from the CDN.

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Specify the date/time you want to format.

const myDate = new Date('6/8/2019, 3:54:01 PM');

Set the pattern to format the date/time. All possible patterns:

• MM – Partial Month (Sep)
• YYYY – Full Year (1992)
• YY – Partial Year (92)
• DD – Day of the Month (24)
• HH – Hours – 24h format
• mm – Minutes (zero padded)
• ss – Seconds (zero padded)
• fff – Milliseconds

const myPattern = tinydate('Current time: [{HH}:{mm}:{ss}]');

Output the formatted date/time.

myPattern(myDate);

Changelog:

v1.3.0 (06/30/2019)

• Add TypeScript definitions

v1.2.0 (07/30/2019)

• Allow custom patterns