Date Time Formatter 

A utility class to format Date object in Javascript. It is heavily influenced by SimpleDateFormat class of Java and follow most of its specifications

Usage

Install the package using npm as shown below

``
npm install --save dt-format
`

You can import the DateTimeFormat class and use it as shown below

$3

`javascript
const pattern = 'dd/MMM/yyyy';
console.info(DateFormat.format(new Date(), pattern)); // 21/Jul/2018
`

$3

`javascript
const pattern = 'dd/MMMM/yyyy';
console.info(DateFormat.format(new Date(), pattern, DateTimeLocale.de_DE)); // 21/Juli/2018
`

Note: If third argument is not passed then default value for locale is set to en_GB

Available Patterns

| Pattern | Description |
| --- | --- |
| d | prints the current date i.e. 12, 21 etc |
| dd | prints the current date and add 0 as suffix if date is less then 10 e.g. 06 |
| MM | prints the numeric representation of current month |
| MMM | print the 3 digit string representing current month. E.g. Jun, Dec etc. Note: Only english is supported for now |
| MMMM | print the full string representing a month. E.g. April, March etc. Note: Only english is supported for now |
| yy | print the 2 digit representation of year |
| yyyy | print the 4 digit representation of year |
| EE | print a number representing the current day of week |
| EEE | print a short string representing the current day of week i.e. Mon, Tue etc. Note: Only english is supported for now |
| EEEE | print a string representing the current day of week. E.g. Monday, Tuesday etc. Note: Only english is supported for now |
| h | print the hour in 12 hour format |
| hh | print the hour in 12 hour format and suffix it with 0 if it is less than 10 i.e. 09, 07 etc. |
| H | print the hour in 24 hour format |
| HH | print the hour in 24 hour format and suffix it with 0 if it is less than 10 i.e. 09, 07 etc. |
| m | print the minute value |
| mm | print the minute and suffix it with 0 if value less than 10 i.e. 09, 04 etc. |
| s | print the second value |
| ss | print the second and suffix it with 0 if value less than 10 i.e. 09, 04 etc. |
| S | print the milli second value |
| SS | print the milli second and suffix it with 0 if value less than 10 i.e. 04, 06 etc. |
| SSS | print the milli second and suffix it with 0 if value less than 100 i.e. 094, 067 etc. |
| a | print AM or PM depending on hour |

Supported Locales

Below is the table with all the supported locale in this library. You can get all the mentioned values from DateTimeLocale object which can be imported as below

`javascript
import { DateTimeLocale } from 'dt-format';
``

| Language | Code |
| --- | --- |
| English | en_GB |
| French | fr_FR |
| German | de_DE |
| Simplified Chinese | zh_CN |
| Russian | ru_RU |
| Arabic | ar_SA |
| Japanese | ja_JP |