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strftime() in JavaScript

Philip "Bluesmoon" Tellis has posted a tiny (under 3K minified) JavaScript library to format dates, inspired by PHP's strftime()

Examples:

d.strftime('%Y/%m/%d')
» en: 2008/04/25
» fr: 2008/04/25
» de: 2008/04/25

d.strftime('%A, %d %B')
» en: Friday, 25 April
» fr: Vendredi, 25 Avril
» de: Freitag, 25 April

There's also a demo to fiddle with.

I've previously had fun with kinda like the opposite: translating human-readable times into JS Date objects. Also here and here you have strtotime() look-alikes that take human-readable dates and turn them into Date objects.

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5 Responses to “strftime() in JavaScript”

  1. Mojo Says:
    March 3rd, 2009 at 6:53 pm

    I like it. I’ve also been using the date parsing lib from Baron Schwartz
    http://code.google.com/p/flexible-js-formatting/

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    November 19th, 2011 at 7:49 pm

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  5. F-Hauri Says:
    March 19th, 2013 at 2:56 am

    I’m really impressed! Great work, nice, clean and efficient! Well written, bravo!!

    Question: Is there a way to link “navigator.language” by default?

    So I could write:

    out=new Date(inputValue).strftime(‘%a %d %b %Y %T’);

    instead of:

    out=new Date(inputValue);
    out.locale=navigator.language;
    out=cont.strftime(‘%a %d %b %Y %T’);

    Thanks for sharing this!!

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