Meteor / JS Dates

Question

So I am trying to make a timesheeting app in meteor, creating projects and adding time entries. Why? it was all I could think of as a test app.

But, I'm more used to dealing with PHP, in PHP I would just store a date field with a time length. Right now, I'm wondering what's the best wat to deal with dates in Meteor.

Do… I do the same thing where I store a parsed string of the date, or is it a date time object? How would you deal with dates? (I'm only 3 hours into Meteor)

Answer 1

Meteor also includes the momentjs library which makes dealing with dates and times very easy. You get function to format and parse.

The best way to store your time is in a Date object. This is because in Mongo you will get the timestamp and its GMT deviation. Making the time TimeZone secure.

In order to manipulate and display times, use momentjs.