time-stamp
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The time-stamp npm package is designed to create formatted timestamps. It allows users to generate timestamps based on the current date and time in a customizable format. This can be particularly useful for logging, file naming, or any other scenario where time-based identifiers are needed.
Generating current date in default format
By default, time-stamp can generate the current date in the 'YYYY/MM/DD' format. This is useful for quickly obtaining a standardized date format without any configuration.
"YYYY/MM/DD"Custom formatting of date and time
time-stamp allows for custom formatting of the date and time, enabling users to specify the exact format they need. This feature supports a wide range of tokens for years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds.
"YYYY:MM:DD HH:mm:ss.ms"Moment.js is a comprehensive date handling library that allows for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. Compared to time-stamp, Moment.js offers a broader set of functionalities for dealing with dates and times, including support for time zones and localization.
date-fns provides a collection of simple, pure functions for performing various operations on dates. It's modular, allowing users to pick and choose which functions they need. While time-stamp focuses on generating timestamps, date-fns offers more general-purpose date manipulation and formatting capabilities.
Day.js is a lightweight date library that offers a similar API to Moment.js. It's designed to be immutable and chainable, making it easy to parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates and times. Compared to time-stamp, Day.js provides a more comprehensive solution for date handling while maintaining a small footprint.
Get a formatted timestamp.
Install with npm:
$ npm install --save time-stamp
var timestamp = require('time-stamp');
timestamp();
//=> 2017:05:14
timestamp('YYYYMMDD');
//=> 20170514
timestamp('YYYYMMDD:ss');
//=> 20170514:26
timestamp('YYYY/MM/DD:mm:ss');
//=> 2017/05/14:52:26
timestamp('YYYY:MM:DD');
//=> 2017:05:14
timestamp('[YYYY:MM:DD]');
//=> [2017:05:14]
timestamp('YYYY/MM/DD');
//=> 2017/05/14
timestamp('YYYY:MM');
//=> 2017:05
timestamp('YYYY');
//=> 2017
timestamp('MM');
//=> 05
timestamp('DD');
//=> 14
timestamp('HH');
//=> 20
timestamp('mm');
//=> 52
timestamp('ss');
//=> 26
timestamp('ms');
//=> 481
Valid patterns
YYYY: full year (ex: 2017)MM: month (ex: 04)DD: day (ex: 01)HH: hours (ex: 12)mm: minutes (ex: 59)ss: seconds (ex: 09)ms: milliseconds (ex: 532)Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.
| Commits | Contributor |
|---|---|
| 21 | jonschlinkert |
| 1 | evocateur |
| 1 | mendenhallmagic |
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