How to return the current timestamp with Moment.js?

Question

Folks,

I am trying to understand the MomentJS API. What is the appropriate way to get the current time on the machine?

var CurrentDate = moment();
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Answer 1

To use am / pm with moment, here is a snippet from a react component

import Moment from 'moment';

const time = Moment().format("hh:mm a")

For reference please remember Moment.js is considered a legacy project that can carry performance overhead

Answer 2

moment().unix() you will get a unix timestamp

moment().valueOf() you will get a full timestamp

Answer 3

If you just want the milliseconds since 01-JAN-1970, then you can use

var theMoment = moment(); // or whatever your moment instance is
var millis;

millis = +theMoment; // a short but not very readable form
// or
millis = theMoment.valueOf();
// or (almost sure not as efficient as above)
millis = theMoment.toDate().getTime();

Answer 4

Try this

console.log(moment().format("MM ffffd, YYYY HH:mm:ss a"));

console.log(moment().format("MM ffffd, YYYY hh:mm:ss a"));

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.22.1/moment.min.js"></script>

Answer 5

Try to use it this way:

let current_time = moment().format("HH:mm")

Answer 6

Get by Location:

moment.locale('pt-br')
return moment().format('DD/MM/YYYY HH:mm:ss')