Below is an Atom snippet I was playing with. What I want to do is insert a timestamp with a developer\'s name at the end. This is useful when multiple folks are working on the
For using momentjs
here is minimal example of a snippet: http://jsfiddle.net/jasdeepkhalsa/a0m9s3rc/
HTML & JavaScript - (index.html)
<!doctype html>
<html>
<body>
<script src="http://momentjs.com/downloads/moment.min.js"></script>
<script>
(function (name) {
var date = moment().format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM'),
name = name || '< Developer Name >',
string = date + ' / ' + name;
return console.log(string);
})('Dan L');
</script>
</body>
</html>
This outputs into the browser's console
:
2014-09-05 15:09 / Dan L
Note: This currently outputs to the browser's F12 developer tool's console using console.log
, which you could change to output to the page with document.write
in the return
statement instead.
The closest you'll get to this without resorting to a library like moment.js or Date.js is by using toISOString()
new Date().toISOString()
This will print the date like this:
2014-09-05T07:15:14.840Z
The downside is that this will always print the date in UTC.
Some more options are listed here: How to format a JavaScript date - maybe you'll see something there. Based on a quick glance of the answers, what you're doing looks pretty good actually.