Get month name of last month using moment

Question

I use the following code to get startDate and endDate of the last months.

// Previous month
var startDateMonthMinusOne = moment().subtract(1, "month").startOf("month").unix();
var endDateMonthMinusOne   = moment().subtract(1, "month").endOf("month").unix();

// Previous month - 1

var startDateMonthMinusOne = moment().subtract(2, "month").startOf("month").unix();
var endDateMonthMinusOne   = moment().subtract(2, "month").endOf("month").unix();

How can i do to get also the month name ? (January, February, ...)

check this out http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29303164/get-all-months-name-from-year-in-moment-js — codepreneur, Feb 15 '17 at 09:42

NineBerry · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-02T10:47:36.287

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Instead of unix() use the format() function to format the datetime using the MMMM format specifier for the month name.

var monthMinusOneName =  moment().subtract(1, "month").startOf("month").format('MMMM');

See the chapter Display / Format in the documentation

edited Feb 02 '18 at 10:47

answered Feb 15 '17 at 09:45

NineBerry

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score 58 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 15 '17 at 09:41

You can simply use format('MMMM').

Here a working example:

var currMonthName  = moment().format('MMMM');
var prevMonthName  = moment().subtract(1, "month").format('MMMM');

console.log(currMonthName);
console.log(prevMonthName);

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Get month name of last month using moment

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