MomentJS - Format

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 −

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

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