Field Helpers - Dates

  • dateFmt 
  • dateFmtUK 
  • dateFmtShort 
  • timeFmt 
  • now 
  • timeago

{{formatDate}}

Formats a date into a string given a format. Accepts any value that can be passed to new Date(). This helper is a port of the formatDate-js library by Michael Baldry.


Parameters: format String, required

The format string, according to these tokens: strftime

Given this data:

date = new Date()

And these templates:

{{formatDate date "%m/%d/%Y"}}
{{formatDate date "%I:%M%p"}}
{{formatDate date "%F"}}
{{formatDate date "%Y%m%dT%H%M%S%z"}}

The output would be:

07/26/2012
11:38PM
2012-07-26
20120726T233805-0004

{{ {{now}}

Returns the current date. 
Parameters: format String - The format string, according to these tokens: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Time.html#method-i-strftime (Optional)

Template:

{{now}}
{{now "%m/%d/%Y"}}

Renders to:

Thu Jul 26 2012 23:41:02 GMT-0400 (AST)
07/26/2012

{{ {{timeago}}

Returns a human-readable time phrase from the given date. 
Parameters: none

Data:

date = 'Thu Jul 22 2012 23:41:02 GMT-0400 (AST)'

Template:

{{timeago date}}

Renders to:

4 days ago