MomentJS - Formatting Date and Time

MomentJS provides formats to display date in different ways. There are methods available which tells the time from a given moment, from the current moment, difference between two moments etc. It can display date in JSON format, Array, Object, String etc.

Methods to Format Date and Time

The following table shows a list of methods available which helps in the displaying/formatting of the date as required.

Method	Syntax
Format	moment().format(); moment().format(String);
Time from now	moment().fromNow(); moment().fromNow(Boolean);
Time from X	moment().from (Moment\|String\|Number\|Date\|Array);
Time to now	moment().toNow(); moment().toNow(Boolean);
Time to X	moment().to(Moment\|String\| Number\|Date\|Array); moment().to(Moment\|String\| Number\|Date\|Array, Boolean);
Calendar Time	moment().calendar(); moment().calendar(referenceTime); moment().calendar(referenceTime, formats);
Difference	moment().diff(Moment\|String\| Number\|Date\|Array); moment().diff(Moment\|String\| Number\|Date\|Array, String); moment().diff(Moment\|String\| Number\|Date\|Array, String, Boolean);
Unix Timestamp(milliseconds)	moment().valueOf(); +moment();
Unix Timestamp(seconds)	moment().unix();
Days in Month	moment().daysInMonth();
As JavaScript Date	moment().toDate();
As Array	moment().toArray();
As JSON	moment().toJSON();
As ISO 8601 String	moment().toISOString(); moment().toISOString(keepOffset);
As Object	moment().toObject();
As String	moment().toString();
Inspect	moment().inspect();