How do I output an ISO 8601 formatted string in JavaScript

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I have a Date object  How do I render the title portion of the following snippet    lt abbr title  2010-04-02T14 12 07  gt A couple days ago lt  abbr gt    I have the  relative time in words  portion from another library   I ve tried the following   function isoDate msSinceEpoch        var d   new Date msSinceEpoch      return d getUTCFullYear      -     d getUTCMonth     1     -    d getUTCDate      T              d getUTCHours           d getUTCMinutes           d getUTCSeconds         But that gives me    2010-4-2T3 19

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Almost every to-ISO method on the web drops the timezone information by applying a convert to "Z"ulu time (UTC) before outputting the string. Browser's native .toISOString() also drops timezone information.

This discards valuable information, as the server, or recipient, can always convert a full ISO date to Zulu time or whichever timezone it requires, while still getting the timezone information of the sender.

The best solution I've come across is to use the Moment.js javascript library and use the following code:

To get the current ISO time with timezone information and milliseconds

now = moment().format("YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.SSSZZ")
// "2013-03-08T20:11:11.234+0100"

now = moment().utc().format("YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.SSSZZ")
// "2013-03-08T19:11:11.234+0000"

now = moment().utc().format("YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss") + "Z"
// "2013-03-08T19:11:11Z" <- better use the native .toISOString()

To get the ISO time of a native JavaScript Date object with timezone information but without milliseconds

var current_time = Date.now();
moment(current_time).format("YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ssZZ")

This can be combined with Date.js to get functions like Date.today() whose result can then be passed to moment.

A date string formatted like this is JSON compilant, and lends itself well to get stored into a database. Python and C# seem to like it.

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See the last example on page https   developer mozilla org en Core JavaScript 1 5 Reference Global Objects Date      Use a function for the exact format desired       function ISODateString d        function pad n   return n lt 10    0  n   n      return d getUTCFullYear    -             pad d getUTCMonth   1   -             pad d getUTCDate     T             pad d getUTCHours                   pad d getUTCMinutes                   pad d getUTCSeconds     Z     var d   new Date    console log ISODateString d       Prints something like 2009-09-28T19 03 12Z

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There is already a function called toISOString      var date   new Date    date toISOString       2011-12-19T15 28 46 493Z    If  somehow  you re on a browser that doesn t support it  I ve got you covered   if    Date prototype toISOString         function          function pad number          var r   String number         if   r length     1             r    0    r                return r             Date prototype toISOString   function           return this getUTCFullYear              -    pad  this getUTCMonth     1              -    pad  this getUTCDate                T    pad  this getUTCHours                     pad  this getUTCMinutes                     pad  this getUTCSeconds                     String   this getUTCMilliseconds   1000  toFixed 3    slice  2  5              Z

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Shortest  but not supported by Internet nbsp Explorer nbsp 8 and earlier   new Date   toJSON

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If you don t need to support IE7  the following is a great  concise hack   JSON parse JSON stringify new Date

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The question asked was ISO format with reduced precision  Voila    new Date   toISOString   slice 0  19     Z       2014-10-23T13 18 06Z    Assuming the trailing Z is wanted  otherwise just omit

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There is a     missing after the  T   isoDate  function msSinceEpoch      var d   new Date msSinceEpoch     return d getUTCFullYear      -     d getUTCMonth     1     -    d getUTCDate      T             d getUTCHours           d getUTCMinutes           d getUTCSeconds        should do it   For the leading zeros you could use this from here   function PadDigits n  totalDigits          n   n toString         var pd            if  totalDigits  gt  n length                  for  i 0  i  lt   totalDigits-n length   i                            pd     0                          return pd   n toString          Using it like this   PadDigits d getUTCHours   2

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The problem with toISOString is that it gives datetime only as  Z     ISO-8601 also defines datetime with timezone difference in hours and minutes  in the forms like 2016-07-16T19 20 30 5 30  when timezone is ahead UTC  and 2016-07-16T19 20 30-01 00  when timezone is behind UTC    I don t think it is a good idea to use another plugin  moment js for such a small task  especially when you can get it with a few lines of code         var timezone offset min   new Date   getTimezoneOffset            offset hrs   parseInt Math abs timezone offset min 60            offset min   Math abs timezone offset min 60           timezone standard       if offset hrs  lt  10          offset hrs    0    offset hrs       if offset min  gt  10          offset min    0    offset min          getTimezoneOffset returns an offset which is positive if the local timezone is behind UTC and vice-versa         So add an opposite sign to the offset        If offset is 0  it means timezone is UTC     if timezone offset min  lt  0          timezone standard         offset hrs         offset min      else if timezone offset min  gt  0          timezone standard    -    offset hrs         offset min      else if timezone offset min    0          timezone standard    Z           Timezone difference in hours and minutes        String such as  5 30 or -6 00 or Z     console log timezone standard        Once you have the timezone offset in hours and minutes  you can append to a datetime string   I wrote a blog post on it   http   usefulangle com post 30 javascript-get-date-time-with-offset-hours-minutes

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I was able to get below output with very less code   var ps   new Date  2010-04-02T14 12 07      ps   ps toDateString           ps getHours          ps getMinutes       hrs     Output   Fri Apr 02 2010 19 42 hrs

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I would just use this small extension to Date - http   blog stevenlevithan com archives date-time-format  var date   new Date msSinceEpoch   date format  isoDateTime       2007-06-09T17 46 21

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To extend Sean s great and concise answer with some sugar and modern syntax      date js  const getMonthName    num    gt      const months     Jan    Feb    Mar    Apr    May    Jun    Jul    Aug    Oct    Nov    Dec      return months num       const formatDate    d    gt      const date   new Date d     const year   date getFullYear      const month   getMonthName date getMonth       const day     0    date getDate    slice -2     const hour     0    date getHours    slice -2     const minutes     0    date getMinutes    slice -2      return    year    month    day     hour    minutes        module exports   formatDate    Then eg   import formatDate   require    date     const myDate    2018-07-24T13 44 46 493Z      Actual value from wherever  eg  MongoDB date console log formatDate myDate       2018 Jul 24  13 44

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function timeStr d       return         d getFullYear          0   d getMonth   1   slice -2         0  d getDate    slice -2         0  d getHours    slice -2         0  d getMinutes    slice -2         0  d getSeconds    slice -2

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function getdatetime         d   new Date        return  1e3- d getUTCMonth   10 d toUTCString   1e3 d 1           replace  1          d   D   d     S             3- 1- 2T 4  5Z            replace  -  d T   -0 1T        I found the basics on Stack nbsp Overflow somewhere  I believe it was part of some other Stack nbsp Exchange code golfing   and I improved it so it works on Internet nbsp Explorer nbsp 10 or earlier as well  It s ugly  but it gets the job done

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I typically don t want to display a UTC date since customers don t like doing the conversion in their head  To display a local ISO date  I use the function   function toLocalIsoString date  includeSeconds        function pad n    return n  lt  10    0    n   n       var localIsoString   date getFullYear      -            pad date getMonth     1     -            pad date getDate       T            pad date getHours                    pad date getMinutes                    pad date getSeconds         if date getTimezoneOffset      0  localIsoString     Z       return localIsoString       The function above omits time zone offset information  except if local time happens to be UTC   so I use the function below to show the local offset in a single location  You can also append its output to results from the above function if you wish to show the offset in each and every time   function getOffsetFromUTC         var offset   new Date   getTimezoneOffset        return   offset  lt  0          -             pad Math abs offset   60   2                          pad Math abs offset   60   2        toLocalIsoString uses pad  If needed  it works like nearly any pad function  but for the sake of completeness this is what I use      Pad a number to length using padChar function pad number  length  padChar        if  typeof length      undefined   length   2      if  typeof padChar      undefined   padChar    0       var str        number      while  str length  lt  length            str   padChar   str            return str

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