GEDate (Good Enough Date)

A library that provides helpful methods for working with dates.

Usage

Format Functions

These methods allow you to format a date in quite a few different ways.

Format string

The format (string) argument is optional, if you do not provide it, the returned string will be formatted like so, mm-dd-yyyy (ex. 12-31-2020). The following table lists the values that can be used in the format string: |Value| Returns | Example| |--|--|--| |mm | month number 1-12 | "12"| |MM | short month |"Apr"| |MMM | long month |"April"| |dd | day number 1-31 | 31| |DD | short day | "Mon"| |DDD | long day |"Monday"| |yy | short year | "21"| |yyyy | long year | "2021"| |YY | short year | "21"| |YYYY | long year | "2021"|

The format string is just that, a string. You may choose to pass in whatever string value you want, the special values denoted in the table above will be replaced with the formatted value.

Examples: DDD MMM dd, YYYY would be formatted in to "Saturday October 31, 2021" (assuming that is the date/timestamp that I passed in to the format function).
DD MM dd, YY would be formatted in to "Sat Oct 31, 21" (assuming that is the date/timestamp that I passed in to the format function).

formatUnixTimestamp

Formats a Unix timestamp
Returns a string
Arguments:
| Name | Type |Description|Optional| Example| |--|--|--|--|--| | timestamp | number |a unix timestamp| no | 1635126143 | | format | string |string as described in the "Format String" section of the docs| yes | "MMM dd YYYY" |

formatDateString

Formats a Unix timestamp
Returns a string
Arguments:
| Name | Type |Description|Optional| Example| |--|--|--|--|--| | dateString | string |A string value representing a date, specified in a format recognized by the Date.parse() method.| no | 'December 31, 2020 06:55:00'| | format | string |string as described in the "Format String" section of the docs| yes | "DDD MMM dd, YYYY" |