Check the current date or time

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Check the current date or time

Obtain the current date or time when an app is running (local or UTC time)

You can get the time and date that a user is using a device with JavaScript. Fliplet comes pre-installed with a library called moment.js that makes manipulating dates easier. To get more information on moment.js please visit https://momentjs.com/

When using moment.js, you can specify the format you’d like the date to be in. For example, the following code would return a date with the years first (4 digit years) then the month and day specified by two digits (eg 2020-03-18)

JavaScript

var date = moment().format('YYYY-MM-DD');

You can find out more about the different options here.

You can also get the time in a similar way to the dates. The following code displays the time with colons separating it eg: 16:20:13

JavaScript

var time = moment().format('HH:MM:SS');

Different display options for time can also be found here.

If you’re working with multiple time-zones you may want to get the UTC rather than a user’s local time. You can do this in the following way:

JavaScript

var timeStamp = moment().toISOString();