Question

I’m working with the date and time in my Titanium based iOS application.

My issue is, I’m getting the time in the below format:

Wed Jan 16 2013 17:32:40 GMT+0530 (IST)

I want to change it like:

Jan 16, 2013, 05:32 pm

In iOS there is NSDateFormatter for doing this.

What I did :

1. Currently I’m doing it manually using split and switch cases, but it fails if the input time format changes, then I need to re-write the code for the changed format.
2. I searched alot in Titanium Docs, but didn’t get any solution.
3. I asked same question on their forum, didn’t get any reply till now.

Is there is anyway to do this in Titanium?

Please help, Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I didn’t find any alternatives for the NSDateFormatter in Titanium.

I tested the Moment.js, but it didn’t worked for my case.

I implemented a JavaScript function for achieving my output.

/**
 * Function for formatting the date and time 
 * @param {Object} dateTime 
 */
function formatDateTime(dateTime)
{
    var arr = dateTime.split(' ');
    var convertedDate = arr[1]+' '+arr[2]+', '+arr[3];
    var convertedTime = arr[4];
    var returnValue = convertedDate+', '+convertedTime;
    return returnValue;
}

Edit on 27 Feb 2014

After facing the JavaScript date formatting issue on different occasions, I finally developed my own JavaScript module, this module will format the JavaScript Date object to Specified formats. You can find it here : MMP_DateTime