How to format a date in Moment.js

Question

I\'m having trouble formatting a date correctly in Moment.js. I\'m using the format function with format \"LLL D, YYYY\" so it should return something like \"Sep 15, 2016\".

Answer 1

From http://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/format/ we can see that "LLL" represents the format "Month name, day of month, year, time". It seems you want "Month day, year", which is "LL".

Try:

picker.format = 'LL';
formatted = moment(picker.date).format(picker.format);
console.log(formatted);

Outputs (with today's date):

September 15, 2016

Answer 2

This should work...

formatted = moment(picker.date).format('MMM D, YYYY')

Ref: http://momentjs.com/docs/#/parsing/string-format/