Date Formatting Methods

Formatting and Parsing

There are several predefined methods for date formatting that can be used to convert dates to strings and strings to dates

// Convert dates to strings
var str1 = webix.i18n.dateFormatStr(date_obj);  //date
var str2 = webix.i18n.longDateFormatStr(date_obj);//long date representation
var str3 = webix.i18n.timeFormatStr(date_obj);  //time
var str4 = webix.i18n.fullDateFormatStr(date_obj);//date + time
var str5 = webix.i18n.parseFormatStr(date_obj);  //used for date serialization

// Convert strings to dates
var date1 = webix.i18n.dateFormatDate(string);  //date
var date2 = webix.i18n.longDateFormatDate(string);//long date representation
var date3 = webix.i18n.timeFormatDate(string);  //time
var date4 = webix.i18n.fullDateFormatDate(string);//date + time
var date5 = webix.i18n.parseFormatDate(string);  //used for date parsing

Formats can be defined by locales to adapt numbers and dates to the target location.

If necessary, you can create your own conversion methods:

// Custom date convert
var format = webix.Date.dateToStr("%Y.%m");
var string = format(new Date()); //2012.05

var parser = webix.Date.strToDate("%Y.%m");
var date = parser("2012.05");

Supported Format Options

%d - the day as a number with a leading zero (01 to 31)
%j - the day as a number without a leading zero (1 to 31)
%D - the day as an abbreviation (Sun to Sat)
%l - the day as a full name (Sunday to Saturday)
%m - the month as a number with a leading zero (01 to 12)
%n - the month as a number without a leading zero (1 to 12)
%M - the month as an abbreviation (Jan to Dec)
%F - the month as a full name (January to December)
%y - the year as a two-digit number (00 to 99)
%Y - the year as a four-digit number (1900�9999)
%h - the hour based on the 12-hour clock with a leading zero (00 to 11)
%g - the hour based on the 12-hour clock (0 to 11)
%H - the hour based on the 24-hour clock with a leading zero (00 to 23)
%G - the hour based on the 24-hour clock (0 to 23)
%i - the minute as a number with a leading zero (00 to 59)
%s - the second as a number with a leading zero (00 to 59)
%S - the milliseconds as a number with a leading zero (000 to 999)
%a - displays am (for times from midnight until noon) and pm (for times from noon until midnight)
%A - displays AM (for times from midnight until noon) and PM (for times from noon until midnight)
%c - displays date and time in the ISO 8601 date format (e.g. 2015-10-04T05:04:09)

For instance, “%d-%F-%Y,%D” will display the date as 11-September-2012, Tue.