OK, so the title of this post might be a bit overstating.<\/p>\n
But, if you work with Javascript and need to use dates\/times, you should absolutely check out a JS library for formatted dates and times<\/a> by Steven Levithan (who is obviously cool; his blog is titled “Flagrant Badassery”).<\/p>\n It’s a library that extends the stock Date object in Javascript to let you easily generate nicely formatted dates. Just put the code in a file and load it up. Then you can do neat things like this (adapted from his blog)<\/p>\n var now = new Date();<\/p>\n now.format(“m\/dd\/yy”); \/\/ You can use one of several named masks \/\/ …Or add your own OK, so the title of this post might be a bit overstating. But, if you work with Javascript and need to use dates\/times, you should absolutely check out a JS library for formatted dates and times by Steven Levithan (who is obviously cool; his blog is titled “Flagrant Badassery”). It’s a library that extends the … Continue reading “Javascript, Dates, Times, and One Man’s Dream”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,123],"tags":[242,245,579,243,244],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.timrosenblatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\/\/ Returns, e.g., 6\/09\/07<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nnow.format(“isoDateTime”);
\n\/\/ 2007-06-09T17:46:21<\/strong><\/p>\n
\ndateFormat.masks.hammerTime = ‘HH:MM! “Can\\’t touch this!”‘;
\nnow.format(“hammerTime”);
\n\/\/ 17:46! Can’t touch this!<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"