I have got a problem in displaying PHP formatted date/time string into a customized format in JavaScript.
The date/time string looks like Monday 21st September 2020
Anyone who knows how to simply handle this?
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1Consider searching before asking? There are many questions and answers to formatting dates in JS.evolutionxbox– evolutionxbox2020-10-13 15:59:29 +00:00Commented Oct 13, 2020 at 15:59
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Will you please let me have a similar one? I tried, but no success.LogiStack– LogiStack2020-10-13 15:59:56 +00:00Commented Oct 13, 2020 at 15:59
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1I'm not the one stopping you from searching. This very site has hundreds of questions about JS date/time formatting.evolutionxbox– evolutionxbox2020-10-13 16:00:42 +00:00Commented Oct 13, 2020 at 16:00
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stackoverflow.com/questions/9755911/…Endunry– Endunry2020-10-13 16:02:30 +00:00Commented Oct 13, 2020 at 16:02
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@Raqha I have no access to change the API. I have to handle this part in Javascript.LogiStack– LogiStack2020-10-13 16:04:41 +00:00Commented Oct 13, 2020 at 16:04
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This is what I came up with - WITHOUT LIBRARIES:
var dateString = "Monday 21st September 2020";
var dayOfMonth, month, year;
[, dayOfMonth, month, year] = dateString.split(" ");
var date = new Date([dayOfMonth.match(/\d*/)[0], month, year]);
console.log("date:\n" + date);The idea is to split the date string into it's 4 parts using destructor, and ignoring the first (day of week).
Extracting the digits from the day of month (with st/nd/rd/th) with regex.
Putting things back into a new Date.
And as a function:
function dateStringToDate(dateString) {
var dayOfMonth, month, year;
[, dayOfMonth, month, year] = dateString.split(" ");
return new Date([dayOfMonth.match(/\d*/)[0], month, year]);
}
var dates = [
"Monday 21st September 2020",
"Erich_Kästner 35th May 1931",
"Someday 2nd October 1967"
];
for(var d = 0; d < dates.length; d++) {
console.log(dates[d]+":\n" + dateStringToDate(dates[d]));
}.as-console-wrapper { max-height: 100% !important; top: 0; }
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