How to set Date of an existing moment.js object

Question

Let's say I have an existing moment object:

var m = moment(); // this will default to now 

and want to update it with a new Date object, but WITHOUT REPLACING the entire object. E.g. this is NOT an acceptable solution for me:

m = moment(new Date()); 

The only solution I can find in there docs, is using set method:

m.set({'year': 2013, 'month': 3}); 

but in this way we'll need to split our existing Date object into peaces like this:

var myDate = new Date(); var newDate = moment(myDate);  var splittedDate = {     year: newDate.get('year'),     month: newDate.get('month'),     date: newDate.get('date'),     hour: newDate.get('hour'),     minute: newDate.get('minute'),     second: newDate.get('second'),     millisecond: newDate.get('millisecond') };  m.set(splittedDate); 

But this looks ugly to me. Maybe someone can suggest a better solution?

Answer 1

It may be a little late, but you can transform your new date to an object (newDate.toObject()) and pass it to the set method of your previous moment object:

var m = moment(); // Initial moment object  // Create the new date var myDate = new Date(); var newDate = moment(myDate);  // Inject it into the initial moment object m.set(newDate.toObject());