MomentJS - Format

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This method will display the date/time details. It displays output based on the input. For example, moment().format("MMMMD") will display April for MMMM, that is the current month and current date for D. So the output is April16. With format, it tries to convert the units given to the corresponding display of date/time.

Syntax

moment().format();
moment().format(String);

Observe the following examples to gain a better understanding on displaying date using the format method.

Example

var changeddate = moment().format();

Output

Note that when you use only the format method, it displays current Date and Time as shown above.

The following table shows a list of tokens to be taken as input string for format method −

Unit	Token	Output
Month	M	1-12
	Mo	1-12
	MM	01-12
	MMM	Jan-Dec
	MMMM	January-December
Quarter	Q	1-4
	Qo	1st-4th
Day of Month	D	1-31
	Do	1st-31st
	DD	01-31
Day of Year	DDD	1-365
	DDDo	1st-365th
	DDDD	001-365
Day of Week	d	0-6
	do	0th-6th
	dd	Su,Mo,Tu,We,Th,Fr,Sa
	ddd	Sun-Sat
	dddd	Sunday-Saturday
Day of Week (locale)	e	0-6
Day of Week(ISO)	E	1-7
Week of Year	w	1-53
	wo	1st-53rd
	ww	01-53
Week of Year(ISO)	W	1-53
	Wo	1st-53rd
	WW	01-53
Year	YY	70,71---29,30
	YYYY	1970-2030
	Y	1970-9999
Week Year	gg	70,71 - 29,30
	gggg	1970,1971-2030
Week Year (ISO)	GG	70,71 - 29,30
	GGGG	1970,1971-2030
AM/PM	A	AM, PM
	a	am,pm
Hour	H	0-23
	HH	00-23
	h	1-12
	hh	01-12
	k	1-24
	kk	01-24
Minute	m	0-59
	mm	00-59
Second	s	0-59
	ss	00-59
Fractional Second	S	0-9
	SS	00-99
	SSS	000-999
	SSSS….	0000..-9999...
Time Zone	Z	-07:00 -06:00 ... +06:00 +07:00
	ZZ	-0700 -0600 ... +0600 +0700
Unix Timestamp	X	1360013296
Unix Millisecond Timestamp	x	1360013296123

The following table shows a list of tokens to be used on moment based on locale −

Unit	Token	Output
Time	LT	2:58 PM
Time with seconds	LTS	2:58:25 PM
Month numeral, day of month, year	L	16/04/2018
	I	16/4/2018
Month name, day of month, year	LL	April 16, 2018
	II	Apr 16, 2018
Month name, day of month, year, time	LLL	April 16, 2018 2:58 PM
	III	Apr 16, 2018 2:58 PM
Month name, day of month, day of week, year, time	LLLL	Monday, April 16, 2018,2:58 PM
	IIII	Mon, Apr 16, 2018, 2:58 PM

Observe the following examples to gain better understanding on token passed to format −

Example 1

var changeddate = moment().format("Do dddd MMMM gggg");

Output

Example 2

var changeddate = moment().format("MMMM Qo DD YYYY");

Output

Example 3

You can also add characters to the format method. For this purpose, put them in square brackets as shown below −

var changeddate = moment().format("[Today's Date is ] D MMM YYYY");

Output

Example 4

var changeddate = moment().format("[Current Time is ] LTS");

Output

Example 5

var changeddate = moment().format("[As per locale the date is ] LLLL");

Output