How do I display todays date in Node.js Jade? - node.js

Question

I am new to Node.js and Jade and I have tried to use #{Date.now()} and it's giving me numbers. How do I display the date in mm/dd/yy format?

Answer 1

You can use moment.js
First, add moment to your express application locals
express = require('express');
...
app = express();
app.locals.moment = require('moment');
Then you can use moment within a jade template like this:
p #{moment(Date.now()).format('MM/DD/YYYY')}
Moment takes Date.now() by default, so yo can also write:
p #{moment().format('MM/DD/YYYY')}
Sources:
Making use of utility libraries in server-side Jade templates
Moment.js

Answer 2

This is old, but I do the following:
return (new Date()).toLocaleDateString()
Returns a date 'mm/dd/yyyy' format, in no additional libs required.

Answer 3

Or you could use the moment.js library to handle dates and format them accordingly to your needs

Answer 4

I actually started using date-util which is 2 parts both clientside and server side.
URL https://github.com/JerrySievert/node-date-utils
Using within a Browser
<script type="text/javascript" src="date-utils.min.js"></script>
Using with Node.js
$ npm install date-utils
require('date-utils');
Note: This did not work in the REPL before Node.js 0.6 due to how Node.js handles context in the REPL.
Static Methods
Date.today(); // today, 00:00:00
Date.yesterday(); // yesterday, 00:00:00
Date.tomorrow(); // tomorrow, 00:00:00
Date.validateDay(day, year, month); // true/false whether a date is valid
Date.validateYear(year); // true/false whether a year is valid
Date.validateMonth(month); // true/false whether a month is valid
Date.validateHour(hour); // true/false whether an hour is valid
Date.validateMinute(minute); // true/false whether a minute is valid
Date.validateSecond(second); // true/false whether a second is valid
Date.validateMillisecond(millisecond); // true/false whether a millisecond is valid
Date.compare(date1, date2); // -1 if date1 is smaller than date2, 0 if equal, 1 if date2 is smaller than date1
Date.equals(date1, date2); // true/false if date1 is equal to date2
Date.getDayNumberFromName(name); // su/sun/sunday - 0, mo/mon/monday - 1, etc
Date.getMonthNumberFromName(name); // jan/january - 0, feb/february - 1, etc
Date.isLeapYear(year); // true/false whether the year is a leap year
Date.getDaysInMonth(monthNumber); // number of days in the month
Instance Methods
d.clone(); // returns a new copy of date object set to the same time
d.getMonthAbbr(); // abreviated month name, Jan, Feb, etc
d.getMonthName(); // fill month name, January, February, etc
d.getUTCOffset(); // returns the UTC offset
d.getOrdinalNumber(); // day number of the year, 1-366 (leap year)
d.clearTime(); // sets time to 00:00:00
d.setTimeToNow(); // sets time to current time
d.toFormat(format); // returns date formatted with:
// YYYY - Four digit year
// MMMM - Full month name. ie January
// MMM - Short month name. ie Jan
// MM - Zero padded month ie 01
// M - Month ie 1
// DDDD - Full day or week name ie Tuesday
// DDD - Abbreviated day of the week ie Tue
// DD - Zero padded day ie 08
// D - Day ie 8
// HH24 - Hours in 24 notation ie 18
// HH - Padded Hours ie 06
// H - Hours ie 6
// MI - Padded Minutes
// SS - Padded Seconds
// PP - AM or PM
// P - am or pm
d.toYMD(separator); // returns YYYY-MM-DD by default, separator changes delimiter
d.between(date1, date2); // true/false if the date/time is between date1 and date2
d.compareTo(date); // -1 if date is smaller than this, 0 if equal, 1 if date is larger than this
d.equals(date); // true/false, true if dates are equal
d.isBefore(date); // true/false, true if this is before date passed
d.isAfter(date); // true/false, true if this is after date passed
d.getDaysBetween(date); // returns number of full days between this and passed
d.getHoursBetween(date); // returns number of hours days between this and passed
d.getMinutesBetween(date); // returns number of full minutes between this and passed
d.getSecondsBetween(date); // returns number of full seconds between this and passed
d.add({ milliseconds: 30,
minutes: 1,
hours: 4,
seconds: 30,
days: 2,
weeks: 1,
months: 3,
years: 2}); // adds time to existing time
d.addMilliseconds(number); // add milliseconds to existing time
d.addSeconds(number); // add seconds to existing time
d.addMinutes(number); // add minutes to existing time
d.addHours(number); // add hours to existing time
d.addDays(number); // add days to existing time
d.addWeeks(number); // add weeks to existing time
d.addMonths(number); // add months to existing time
d.addYears(number); // add years to existing time

Answer 5

You will need to use the methods on the Date object to achieve what you're after. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date
For example, the code below should do what you need:
var dateNow = new Date();
var dd = dateNow.getDate();
var monthSingleDigit = dateNow.getMonth() + 1,
mm = monthSingleDigit < 10 ? '0' + monthSingleDigit : monthSingleDigit;
var yy = dateNow.getFullYear().toString().substr(2);
var formattedDate = mm + '/' + dd + '/' + yy;
So if you were using say jade with express and node you could do something like:
res.render('jadeTemplateName', {
dateNow: function() {
var dateNow = new Date();
var dd = dateNow.getDate();
var monthSingleDigit = dateNow.getMonth() + 1,
mm = monthSingleDigit < 10 ? '0' + monthSingleDigit : monthSingleDigit;
var yy = dateNow.getFullYear().toString().substr(2);
return (mm + '/' + dd + '/' + yy);
}
})
and in your jade template say if you wanted to add the date to a span:
span Today's date is #{dateNow()}

Answer 6

add the class .post-date to a tag holding the date
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
var list = document.getElementsByClassName('post-date');
// get the number of selected elements
// iterate over elements and output their HTML content
for (var i=0; i<list.length; i++){
//console.log(list[i].innerHTML);
var string=list[i].innerHTML;
var length = 15;
var trimmedString = string.substring(0, length);
list[i].innerHTML=trimmedString ;
}
})

Answer 7

I found a solution
1.Create a function in pug using - syntax
2.pass the varible to the function when pug.js is binding variables to the pug template
-function prettyDate(dateString){
-var date = new Date(dateString);
-var d = date.getDate();
-var monthNames = [ "Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun","Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec" ];
-var m = monthNames[date.getMonth()];
-var y = date.getFullYear();
-return d+' '+m+' '+y;
-}
3.span.post-date #{prettyDate(val.date)};