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Work With Formatted Dates and Times

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Last updated: Dec 18, 2014
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When you are coding in JavaScript and want to make sure you are using culture-formatted dates and times, the Aptify JavaScript API provides several ways to interact with them.

 

  1. If you want to format a date or datetime based on culture, you can use Aptify.framework.utility.getFormattedDateTime()

    Get Formatted Current Date/Time
    // Returns the current date and time as a string formatted for the user's Culture.
Aptify.framework.utility.getFormattedDateTime(new Date());
    Get Formatted Date/Time
    // Takes a valid JSON-formatted date or datetime and returns it as a string formatted for the user's Culture.
Aptify.framework.utility.getFormattedDateTime("2014-09-09T12:07:12.878Z");

  2. If you want to turn an already-formatted date (or datetime) into a JavaScript Date object without time information, you can use Aptify.framework.utility.getCultureDate().

    Parse a Formatted Date/Time String
    // Returns a JavaScript Date object, with the time information stripped out
Aptify.framework.utility.getCultureDate("09/09/2014 05:37:12 PM")
 
// Returns a JavaScript Date object
Aptify.framework.utility.getCultureDate("12/09/2014")
 
// So for both these calls, the time portion of the output is 00:00:00
    Parse an Invalid Formatted Date/Time String
    // Invalid date/time when the DateFormat is "MM/dd/yyyy"; returns null
Aptify.framework.utility.getCultureDate("13/09/2014 05:37:12 PM")

  3. If you want to turn an already-formatted datetime into a JavaScript Date object with time information, you can use Aptify.framework.utility.getCultureDateTime().

    Parse a Formatted Date/Time String
    // Returns a JavaScript Date object
Aptify.framework.utility.getCultureDateTime("09/09/2014 05:37:12 PM")
    Parse an Invalid Formatted Date/Time String
    // Invalid datetime, since it does not include time information; returns null
Aptify.framework.utility.getCultureDateTime("13/09/2014 05:37:12 PM")

  4. If you want to turn a JavaScript Date object into a JSON-formatted datetime string, you can use Aptify.framework.utility.getJSONDateTime().

    Get JSON-Formatted String From JavaScript Date Object
    // Returns a JSON-formatted string representation of the current date and time
Aptify.framework.utility.getJSONDateTime(new Date());

    You can go through getCultureDateTime() to use getJSONDateTime() on a culture-formatted datetime:

    Get JSON-Formatted String From Culture-Formatted String
    // Returns a JSON-formatted string representation of the culture-formatted datetime
Aptify.framework.utility.getJSONDateTime(Aptify.framework.utility.getCultureDateTime("12/09/2014 05:37:12 PM"));

 

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