Using moment.js, how to display the current date format for the user?

Question

Given a text field, I want to have a suitable placeholder. A typical placeholder will be something like: \"mm/dd/yyyy\".

However, I would like to use locale-aware d

Answer 1

I don't think it's exposed nicely, but if the browser has its language configured correctly you can do something like this:

var lang = navigator.languages ? navigator.languages : navigator.language;

moment().locale(lang).localeData()._longDateFormat['L']

Languages behave slightly differently depending on which browser you're using, so don't know how reliable this is.

Answer 2

Follow up to Adam R's answer:

Seems to have been exposed by now:

localeData.longDateFormat(dateFormat);

returns the full format of abbreviated date-time formats LT, L, LL and so on

(source: http://momentjs.com/docs/)

Get the currently used locale data by moment.localeData()