Datetime formatting / customization in ejs

Question

I show date by this in ejs

<%= new Date();%>

it give me result

Tue Feb 02 2016 16:02:24 GMT+0530 (IST)

Answer 1

You can use moment

In your controller,

var moment = require('moment');
exports.index = function(req, res) {
    res.render('index', { moment: moment });
}

In your html,

    
<%= moment().format('Do MMMM, YYYY'); %>

EDIT :

If you can live without ordinal day (th, nd, rd etc) you could use basic JS

<%= new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-GB', { year: 'numeric', month: 'long', day: '2-digit'}).format(new Date()) %>
// Expected output: 25 August 2020