gkostov / date-fns-timezone

Parsing and formatting date strings using IANA time zones for date-fns.

date-fns-timezone

Provides parsing and formatting date strings and time zone conversions supporting IANA time zones, following the design of functions in date-fns. List of canonical time zone names is provided by timezone-support.

Table of Contents

• Synopsis
• Installation and Getting Started
• Usage Scenarios
• API Reference
• Contributing
• Release History
• License

Synopsis

const { listTimeZones } = require('timezone-support')
const { parseFromTimeZone, formatToTimeZone } = require('date-fns-timezone')

// List canonical time zone names: [ 'Africa/Abidjan', ... ]
const timeZones = listTimeZones()

// Set the date to "2018-09-01T16:01:36.386Z"
const date = parseFromTimeZone('2018-09-01 18:01:36.386', { timeZone: 'Europe/Berlin' })

// Set the output to "1.9.2018 18:01:36.386 GMT+02:00 (CEST)"
const date = new Date('2018-09-01Z16:01:36.386Z')
const format = 'D.M.YYYY HH:mm:ss.SSS [GMT]Z (z)'
const output = formatToTimeZone(date, format, { timeZone: 'Europe/Berlin' })

Installation and Getting Started

This module can be installed in your project using NPM or Yarn. Make sure, that you use Node.js version 6 or newer.

$ npm i date-fns-timezone --save

$ yarn add date-fns-timezone

Functions are exposed as named exports from the package modules, for example:

const { parseFromTimeZone, formatToTimeZone } = require('date-fns-timezone')

You can read more about the module loading in other environments, like with ES6 or in web browsers. Usage scenarios demonstrate applications of this library in typical real-world scenarios. The API reference lists all functions with a description of their functionality.

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

Release History

• 2018-10-10 v0.1.4 Fix compatibility with IE. Thanks, Andrii!
• 2018-10-06 v0.1.2 Add TypeScript export declarations.
• 2018-09-19 v0.1.0 Add parseString without a time zone to cover a gap in date-fns
• 2018-09-17 v0.0.1 Initial release

License

Copyright (c) 2018 Ferdinand Prantl

Licensed under the MIT license.