Closed calicoder77 closed 11 months ago
I am not 100% sure on what your question is.
toFormat
returns a string, formatted according to your format specification. If you want to turn this string back into a DateTime
you can use parsing (DateTime.fromFormat
and friends), however this process is lossy and I am not sure why you'd want to format a date only to immediately parse it again.
toJSDate
returns a normal JavaScript Date
object, which is mainly used when you need to interact with a third party library that requires a plain Date
. Date
has very primitive formatting and parsing capabilities, but again I am not sure why you'd want to use them if you're already using Luxon.
If you want both a formatted string and a plain JS date, just call toFormat
and toJSDate
on the same DateTime
object. DateTime
(like pretty much everything in Luxon) is immutable, so calling toFormat
or toJSDate
does not change the DateTime
object:
const now = DateTime.now();
const formatted = now.toFormat("ddhhmmLLLyy"); // gives you a string
const jsDate = now.toJSDate(); // gives you a Date
Please let me know if this helps.
Good day,
I'm using Luxon to handle datetime tasks I need and great job devs, incredible project! Was wondering if it's possible to convert the DateTime I get back from
DateTime.now().toFormat("ddhhmmLLLyy")
back to a Date object? I see thetoJSDate()
function but is that usable with the othertoFormat()
command?Appreciate any tips, thanks