Get JS date format string

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For our Angular 4 application I'm using ngx-translate with messageformat.js for handling internationalization and localization. Is it possible to get the format string of shortdate of a date object ie. 'YYYY-MM-dd'?

ie: new Date().formatString('en-US') returns: 'YYYY-MM-dd'

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 04 '17 at 14:27

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const pipe: DatePipe = new DatePipe(locale) //en-Ukr
return pipe.transform(value, 'y-MM-DD') // value = new Date()
'2017-12-04'

answered Dec 04 '17 at 14:27

DmitriyKhirniy

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Actually I would like to have the string 'YYYY-mm-dd' so I can show it as a place holder text in a date input. – bjorkblom Dec 05 '17 at 07:15
pipe.transform - will returns you a string – DmitriyKhirniy Dec 05 '17 at 07:26
It returns the actual date as a string but I'm looking the exact sting: 'YYYY-mm-dd'. The date formater as a string. – bjorkblom Dec 05 '17 at 11:15

Get JS date format string

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