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As the title asks, is the output of Date.toString() (more precisely, Date.toTimeString()) always in the same format, in all browsers?
I ask this since the EMCAScript specification says that the "contents of the String are implementation-dependent".
I need to make sure of this because I need to format the string by inserting HTML span elements as follows:
(new Date()).toTimeString().replace(" GMT", "<span id='offset'> GMT") + '</span>' );
This would produce (in Google Chrome v28.0.1500.95) something like
18:19:26<span id="offset"> GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)</span>
which I can then style with CSS.
Suggestions for better ways to style the output would also be great!
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The string format should be: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss. sssZ , where: YYYY-MM-DD – is the date: year-month-day. The character "T" is used as the delimiter.
Dear Mate ! The dates appear as, mm/dd/yyyy in the U.S. and as, dd/mm/yyyy outside the U.S. where mm is the month, dd is the day, and yyyy is the year. The time is displayed as, hh:mm:ss AM/PM, where hh is the hour, mm is minutes, and ss is seconds. Hope this answer helps you.
The ISO standard takes a general-to-specific approach for its date formats: The year comes first, followed by the month and then by the day of the month, with most elements represented as numerical values. For example, the ISO representation for July 15, 2022 is either 20220715 or 2022-07-15.
In brief, no, toString does not always output the same format.
new Date().toString()
prints
I know these are older browser version, but it shows that it is browser dependent.
However, when using toTimeString() it appears it always starts with hours:minutes:seconds[space]...
Therefore, you could instead split the string into 2 portions based on the first [space] with:
indexOf(" ")
Then wrap the second portion with your span
Moment does some string formatting of dates, but it also does not handle your requested offset string very well as it depends on the toString() method.
I hope that helps
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