Formatting date in ES6
I am formatting the date, not with pulses or any other library, just pure JS. And I want to know if there is a way to simplify this with ES6
let currentDate = new Date();
const videosInformation = {
time: currentDate.getHours() + ':' + currentDate.getMinutes(),
date: (currentDate.getMonth() + 1) + '/' + currentDate.getDate() + '/' + currentDate.getFullYear(),
gameId: Math.floor((Math.random() * 5000) + 1)
};
I saw that in the DOM you use something like renderSomething={`something: ${someObj}`}
so you don't need to do renderSomething={"something: " + {someObj}}
is there something I should use to create a format like this?
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There is nothing in ES2015 that added something like strftime
no. There's an ECMAScript internationalization specification ecma-402 that allows you to localize time:
let [date, time] = new Date().toLocaleString('en-US').split(', ');
const videosInformation = {
time,
date,
gameId: Math.floor((Math.random() * 5000) + 1)
};
Which would give you localized US on 8/4/2015 and 5:29:19 PM Or if you really want 24 hour time:
new Date().toLocaleString('en-US', {hour12: false})
Then you can substring for the time if you want to strip out the seconds.
You can find out more about date and time in the MDT docs .
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