formatDate

Formats a Date object into a string.

Prior to version 1.3, formatDate accepted a very different format. See here.

formatString is a combination of any of the following commands:

• s - seconds
• ss - seconds, 2 digits
• m - minutes
• mm - minutes, 2 digits
• h - hours, 12-hour format
• hh - hours, 12-hour format, 2 digits
• H - hours, 24-hour format
• HH - hours, 24-hour format, 2 digits
• d - date number
• dd - date number, 2 digits
• ddd - date name, short
• dddd - date name, full
• M - month number
• MM - month number, 2 digits
• MMM - month name, short
• MMMM - month name, full
• yy - year, 2 digits
• yyyy - year, 4 digits
• t - ‘a’ or ‘p’
• tt - ‘am’ or ‘pm’
• T - ‘A’ or ‘P’
• TT - ‘AM’ or ‘PM’
• u - ISO8601 format
• S - ‘st’, ‘nd’, ‘rd’, ‘th’ for the date
• W - the ISO8601 week number

Special Characters:

'...'

literal text

''

single quote (represented by two single quotes)

(...)

only displays format if one of the enclosed variables is non-zero

The options parameter can be used to override default locale options, such as monthNames, monthNamesShort, dayNames, and dayNamesShort.