as-date-utils

does date manipulation and formatting

Functionality

DateUtils class contains the following methods:

• formatDate(date_object, format_string) - returns a date in the specified format.
• getDateFromFormat(date_string , format_string) - if the date string matches the format string, it returns the getTime() of the date; if it does not match, it returns 0.
• parseDate(date_string [, prefer_euro_format]) - takes a date string and tries to match it to a number of possible date formats to get the value. A second argument may be passed to instruct the method to search for formats like d/M/y (european format) before M/d/y (American). Returns a Date object or null if no patterns match.
• isDate(date_string, format_string) - returns true if date string matches format and is a valid date, otherwise returns false.
• compareDates(date1,date1format,date2,date2format) - compares two date strings to see which is greater. Returns:
  • 1 if date1 is greater than date2
  • 0 if date2 is greater than date1 of if they are the same
  • -1 if either of the dates is in an invalid format
• secondsToDate(seconds, format) - returns a string representing the date given in seconds.
• utcSeconds() - returns UTC in seconds.
• utcMiliseconds() - returns UTC in milliseconds.
• dateToSeconds(string, format) - returns a date in seconds as specified by the given string.
• timeToSeconds(string) - returns specified string as seconds.