I need to display dates in several ways in an application built with jquery.
In some situations, I need the typical type of formatting "yyyy-mm-dd hh: mma", with all its different permutations. In other cases, I need to show “pretty printed” dates, similar to how StackOverflow does them:
- 5 seconds ago
- 12 minutes ago
- 3 hours ago
- yesterday
- 2 days ago
My application already uses the jQuery UI DatePicker, which includes the formatDate () function, but as far as I can tell, there is no way to use it outside of the datepicker. I want to format dates that are not related to the dumper. Is it possible to do this with DatePicker?
The DateJS library can parse dates like “12 minutes ago,” but as far as I can tell, it cannot accept date strings of an object and format like this. It can format typical yyyy-mm-dd format types. This library seems pretty heavy.
John Resig Pretty Dates looks like he can provide pretty print ("2 hours ago"), but he doesn't perform standard formatting.
Isn't there a single plugin that could do all this? Is there a way to use DatePicker code, so I don’t have to download multiple codebases that do the same thing?
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