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Momentjs: format date keeping local day, month and year

I am using Moment.js to format some dates in a "country specific" order using the built-in locale . So, for example, this code will print the date specified in the Netherlands by default:

moment.locale('nl');
nlDate = moment();
nlDate.format('ll'); // "12 nov. 2014"

A different language menu will print a different order:

moment.locale('en');
nlDate = moment();
nlDate.format('ll'); // "Nov 12, 2014"

What I would like to do is change the format of the output string while preserving the order of the locale; eg,

(nl) 12 nov. 2014   -->   12-11-'14
(en) Nov 12, 2014   -->   11-12-'14

Unfortunately custom format , I can't keep the local order:

nlDate = moment();

nlDate.locale('nl');
nlDate.format("DD-MM-'YY"); // "12-11-'14"

nlDate.locale('en');
nlDate.format("DD-MM-'YY"); // "12-11-'14"

From the above, I would like to get:

(nl) 11-12-'14
(en) 12-11-'14

Any help?

I refer to my efforts here and here , but not sure if I'm in the right direction.

Thanks, Luca

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Try it,

moment.locale("nl").format('L');


and

moment.locale("en").format('L');
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Setting the language options seems to work pretty well:

moment.locale('en', {
    longDateFormat : {
        LT: "h:mm A",
        L: "MM-DD-'YY",
        LL: "MMMM Do YYYY",
        LLL: "MMMM Do YYYY LT",
        LLLL: "dddd, MMMM Do YYYY LT"
    }
});
moment.locale("en");
moment().format("L"); // 11-12-'14


So far this is the best I have found and I am very happy with it.

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