Format Datetime Functions

The following is the sample JSON for all the examples

data = {
    "company_name": "Nakatomi Trading Corp",
    "total_amount": 82542.56,
    "date": "2021-09-30",
    "items": [
                {
                    "name": "Brand Guide",
                    "man_hour": 2,
                    "unit": "hour",
                    "unit_price": 120.0,
                    "item_total": 240.0
                },
                {
                    "name": "Software Development",
                    "man_hour": 17,
                    "unit": "hour",
                    "unit_price": 20.0,
                    "item_total": 340.0
                },
                {
                    "name": "Landing Page Design",
                    "man_hour": 5,
                    "unit": "hour",
                    "unit_price": 20.0,
                    "item_total": 80.0
                }

            ]
}

format

It formats a string(datetime) according to a format and returns a formatted string.

Usage

format(`datestring`, `type`, `srcformat`, `destformat`)

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
datestring	string	A datetime string
type	string	use “datetime”
srcformat	string	Parse the specified datestring as srcformat
destformat	string	format the string as destformat

Visit momentjs for details for the srcformat or destformat
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Example

{{format(data.date,"datetime","YYYY-MM-DD","YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss")}}

Output

2021-09-30 00:00:00

Use Moment library to format

Use momentjs in the expression

Please visit momentjs for details

Example

{{ moment().format('MMMM Do YYYY, h:mm:ss a') }}

Output

August 16th 2021, 12:00:33 pm