[javascript] How to get am pm from the date time string using moment js

I have a string as Mon 03-Jul-2017, 11:00 AM/PM and I have to convert this into a string like 11:00 AM/PM using moment js.

The problem here is that I am unable to get AM or PM from the date time string.

I am doing this:

moment(Mon 03-Jul-2017, 11:00 AM, 'dd-mm-yyyy hh:mm').format('hh:mm A')

and it is working fine as I am getting 11:00 AM but if the string has PM in it it is still giving AM in the output.

like this moment(Mon 03-Jul-2017, 11:00 PM, 'dd-mm-yyyy hh:mm').format('hh:mm A') is also giving 11:00 AM in output instead of 11:00 PM

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The answer is


You are using the wrong format tokens when parsing your input. You should use ddd for an abbreviation of the name of day of the week, DD for day of the month, MMM for an abbreviation of the month's name, YYYY for the year, hh for the 1-12 hour, mm for minutes and A for AM/PM. See moment(String, String) docs.

Here is a working live sample:

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console.log( moment('Mon 03-Jul-2017, 11:00 AM', 'ddd DD-MMM-YYYY, hh:mm A').format('hh:mm A') );_x000D_
console.log( moment('Mon 03-Jul-2017, 11:00 PM', 'ddd DD-MMM-YYYY, hh:mm A').format('hh:mm A') );
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<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.18.1/moment.min.js"></script>
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you will get the time without specifying the date format. convert the string to date using Date object

var myDate = new Date('Mon 03-Jul-2017, 06:00 PM');

working solution:

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var myDate= new Date('Mon 03-Jul-2017, 06:00 PM');_x000D_
console.log(moment(myDate).format('HH:mm')); // 24 hour format _x000D_
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console.log(moment(myDate).format('hh:mm A'));
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<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.18.1/moment.min.js"></script>
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