date format in node.JS

Question

I am using mysql database,in that i have a field by name request_date. The type of the field is time stamp and the data stored in this field has the format 2012-05-16 14:59:18. But when I retrieve the same data by Node.JS, the data is displayed in the browser as

Fri Jun 08 2012 15:16:50 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)

Why this format change is happening?

I have written this query:

SELECT
biz_registration.reqid,biz_registration.request_date,biz_registration.req_status,biz_registration.annual_cost,biz_registration.rid,biz_contact.first_name,biz_contact.last_name
FROM biz_registration
INNER JOIN biz_contact ON biz_registration.reqid=biz_contact.reqid
ORDER BY biz_registration.request_date
DESC limit '+start+','+mlimit+''

the html code i am using is,

options +='<div class="column" style="background-color: #E1E1E1;width:         100px;">'+result.reqid+'</div>';
options +='<div class="column" style="background-color: #E1E1E1;width: 160px;">'+result.request_date+'</div>';

How are you converting the date from the query into a `Date` object in Node.JS? How are you displaying the date in HTML? The query is probably fine, this is HTML formatting or `Date` object creation issue. — freakish, Jun 25 '12 at 11:01
Please post the code that you use to convert the date into a js Date object (if you do) and the code that generates the html. In js Date-objects the months start at 0. January is month 0, June is is month 5. — kioopi, Jun 25 '12 at 11:04
i am not doing any date object conversion.can anyone help me in doing it.thanks in advance — nithin Kumar, Jun 25 '12 at 11:32

score 34 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 21 '20 at 14:55

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I was having the same problem, this fixed my problem:

You need to 'force' your mysql connection to format it immediately, add this into your config(connection details):

host: 'localhost',
user: 'root'
// ....
dateStrings: 'date'

Note that in many cases

dateStrings: true

rather than 'date'

seems to be the needed solution.

edited Oct 21 '20 at 14:55

Fattie

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answered Apr 05 '15 at 13:29

Balkana

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Could you please explain more your solution? – abarisone Apr 05 '15 at 13:49
I had a customer database with some orders and when I wanted to display Date of the order I would get a very long date format (example from first post) Then I was trying to find a simple solution so I can just display the actual date 'MM/dd/YYYY' and with the code from above it worked perfectly. I found that example on some other site, can't remember right now. This is how it looks at me right now: var pool = mysql.createPool({ connectionLimit : 10, host : 'localhost', user : 'root', password : 'password', database : 'database', dateStrings: 'date' }); – Balkana Apr 05 '15 at 21:10
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All the options from the node-mysql docs: dateStrings: Force date types (TIMESTAMP, DATETIME, DATE) to be returned as strings rather then inflated into JavaScript Date objects. (Default: false) -- I was looking for DATETIME myself – user353885 Oct 05 '15 at 04:24

score 21 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 01 '16 at 11:21

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This config resolve mine, according to node-mysql doc

  host: 'localhost',
  user: 'root',
  password: '',
  dateStrings:true,
  database: "mydb"

answered Mar 01 '16 at 11:21

RANDRIAMILASOA Stanislas

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score 8 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 26 '12 at 05:54

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i got this working by requiring the library or module called date format. first we have to install date format package using

npm install dateformat

then u can require it in ur coding. then u can create the object of retrieved data as

var day=dateFormat(result.request_date, "yyyy-mm-dd h:MM:ss");

and print it.

answered Jun 26 '12 at 05:54

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Please note that the correct format for mysql is: "yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:ss" – Dima L. May 30 '14 at 10:36

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 12 '19 at 19:17

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Here is the solution :

var datetme = new Date().toLocaleString();

OR

const DATE_FORMATER = require( 'dateformat' );
var datetme = DATE_FORMATER( new Date(), "yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:ss" );

answered Jul 12 '19 at 19:17

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score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 02 '13 at 10:22

What you see, is simply the default javascript date formatting. If you want it formatted differently, you can use the methods:

getDate(): Returns the date
getMonth(): Returns the month
getFullYear(): Returns the year

on the date object, and combine the results with / or - or : to get the format you want.

Have a look at: http://www.elated.com/articles/working-with-dates/ for more details

Vladimir Salguero · Answer 6 · 2021-04-14T16:06:37.247

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Sometimes you can't get to format your date with the yyyy-mm-dd h:MM:ss (database format) just by using new Date().toLocaleString or new Date().toISOString().

To achieve this we need to add the dateformat package

npm install dateformat

Then we use

const dateFormat = require ('dateformat');

So to assign a date you can use dateFormat

var created_at = dateFormat(new Date(), 'yyyy-mm-dd h:MM:ss');

edited Apr 14 '21 at 16:06

answered Apr 14 '21 at 06:32

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