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Elliot Starks
Elliot Starks

Reputation: 153

Parsing Date String Using Moment.js Incorrectly Returns Unix Timestamp

I'm attempting to parse a Javascript date from an html attribute using Moment.js. I'm utilizing the moment(String, String) function to pass in a format string, but I'm getting what looks like a Unix timestamp returned. What am I missing here? Thanks!

var from = $('#requested-from').attr('data-requested-from');
console.log('from: ' + from);

var requestedFrom = moment(from, 'MM-DD-YYYY');
console.log('requestedFrom: ' + requestedFrom);
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.16.0/moment.js"></script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<span id="requested-from" class="hidden" data-requested-from=06-10-2017></span>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 432

Answers (1)

Fabian Schultz
Fabian Schultz

Reputation: 18546

You need to format() the moment however you like. MomentJS returns the timestamp as a default.

var from = $('#requested-from').attr('data-requested-from');
console.log('from: ' + from);

var requestedFrom = moment(from, 'MM-DD-YYYY');
console.log('requestedFrom: ' + requestedFrom.format('MM-DD-YYYY'));
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.16.0/moment.js"></script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<span id="requested-from" class="hidden" data-requested-from=06-10-2017></span>

Upvotes: 1

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