format date to standard format moment code example

Example 1: moment format date

moment.locale();         // en
moment().format('LT');   // 12:25 PM
moment().format('LTS');  // 12:25:27 PM
moment().format('L');    // 03/26/2021
moment().format('l');    // 3/26/2021
moment().format('LL');   // March 26, 2021
moment().format('ll');   // Mar 26, 2021
moment().format('LLL');  // March 26, 2021 12:25 PM
moment().format('lll');  // Mar 26, 2021 12:25 PM
moment().format('LLLL'); // Friday, March 26, 2021 12:25 PM
moment().format('llll'); // Fri, Mar 26, 2021 12:25 PM

Example 2: moment format date

moment().format();                                // "2019-08-12T17:52:17-05:00" (ISO 8601, no fractional seconds)
moment().format("dddd, MMMM Do YYYY, h:mm:ss a"); // "Monday, August 12th 2019, 5:52:00 pm"
moment().format("ddd, hA");                       // "Mon, 5PM"

Example 3: moment format date

moment("20111031", "YYYYMMDD").fromNow(); // 9 years ago
moment("20120620", "YYYYMMDD").fromNow(); // 9 years ago
moment().startOf('day').fromNow();        // 12 hours ago
moment().endOf('day').fromNow();          // in 12 hours
moment().startOf('hour').fromNow();       // 26 minutes ago