DateLib

A wrapper for the Javascipt Date Object

Definition Parameters

CustomDate can be created the same way as a Javascript Date object. You can define it with date parameters, or with no parameters, which will instantiate it as the current date.

Getting Properties

• customDate.year
  returns the year defined in the customDate object

  d.year // => 2019

• customDate.month
  returns the month defined in the customDate object

   d.month // => March

• customDate.day
  returns the day of the month defined in the customDate object range is 0-30

   d.day // => 23

• customDate.hour
  returns the hour defined in the customDate object
  range is 0-23

   d.hours // => 9

• customDate.minute
  returns the minute defined in the customDate object range is 0-60

   d.minutes // => 34

• customDate.second
  returns the second defined in the customDate object
  range is 0-60

   d.seconds // => 12

Methods

• customDate.format(formString)
  The format method allows you to define a custom formatted output based on a few custom Characters. The characters are listed below.

  {
  'Y': 2019, // full year
  'y': 19, // shortened year
  'M': "July", // full month
  'm': "Jul", // shortened month
  'D': 01, // full day
  'd': 1, //shortened day
  'H': 05, // full hour
  'h': 5, // shortened hour
  'I': 08, // full minute
  'i': 8, //shortened minute
  'S': 04, //full second
  's': 4, //shortened second
  }
  myDate.format("M-d-Y") //=> "January-6-2019"
  myDate.format("m:d:y") //=> "Jan:6:19"
  myDate.format('Y-M-D h:I:S')) // => 2019-January-06 6:54:35

  If the format string is left empty, it will default to M/d/Y

• customDate.when(referenceDate) The when method will return a string representaion of the difference between the reference date, and the date stored in the customDate object. The reference date defaults to the current date.

  myDate.when() // => "6 months ago"
  aDifferentDate.when() // => "4 months from now"
  b.when() // => "2 days ago"
  c.when() // => "1 year ago"