How to escape moment.js reserved words?

Question

// date October 10 2018 pmt 10:01
date = moment(details.date).format("MMMM DD YYYY at h:mm");

How to escape moment reserved keywords like a? I want the output to be October 10 2018 at 10:01.

Possible duplicate of [format date using moment with custom format](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42638718/format-date-using-moment-with-custom-format) — VincenzoC, Oct 10 '18 at 22:13

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 13 '20 at 09:40

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You can also achieve it using:

const date = moment(details.date);
const formattedDate = moment(date).format("DD MMM YYYY [at] hh:mm A");

edited Jan 13 '20 at 09:40

rdj7

answered Jan 13 '20 at 09:28

Saransh Kumar

This is the more accurate answer. It's documented in their official docs too! Thanks you @Saransh – abdoo_salem Feb 05 '20 at 16:46
This should be the accepted answer. It is stated the same way in the official docs as @abdoo_salem pointed out. It is right on their landing: https://momentjs.com/ at "Format Dates". – tafaust Feb 27 '20 at 09:37
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score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 10 '18 at 19:10

3

Why not just break it up into two parts?

const date = moment(details.date);
const formattedDate = `${date.format("MMMM DD YYYY")} at ${date.format("h:mm")}`;

answered Oct 10 '18 at 19:10

Matthew Herbst

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