PHP's strftime in JavaScript

Here’s what our current JavaScript equivalent to PHP's strftime looks like.

module.exports = functionstrftime (fmt, timestamp) {
// discuss at: https://locutus.io/php/strftime/
// original by: Blues (https://tech.bluesmoon.info/)
// reimplemented by: Brett Zamir (https://brett-zamir.me)
// input by: Alex
// bugfixed by: Brett Zamir (https://brett-zamir.me)
// improved by: Brett Zamir (https://brett-zamir.me)
// note 1: Uses global: locutus to store locale info
// example 1: strftime("%A", 1062462400); // Return value will depend on date and locale
// returns 1: 'Tuesday'
const setlocale = require('../strings/setlocale')
const $global = (typeofwindow !== 'undefined' ? window : global)
$global.$locutus = $global.$locutus || {}
const $locutus = $global.$locutus
// ensure setup of localization variables takes place
setlocale('LC_ALL', 0)
const _xPad = function (x, pad, r) {
if (typeof r === 'undefined') {
r = 10
}
for (; parseInt(x, 10) < r && r > 1; r /= 10) {
x = pad.toString() + x
}
return x.toString()
}
const locale = $locutus.php.localeCategories.LC_TIME
const lcTime = $locutus.php.locales[locale].LC_TIME
var _formats = {
a: function (d) {
return lcTime.a[d.getDay()]
},
A: function (d) {
return lcTime.A[d.getDay()]
},
b: function (d) {
return lcTime.b[d.getMonth()]
},
B: function (d) {
return lcTime.B[d.getMonth()]
},
C: function (d) {
return _xPad(parseInt(d.getFullYear() / 100, 10), 0)
},
d: ['getDate', '0'],
e: ['getDate', ' '],
g: function (d) {
return _xPad(parseInt(this.G(d) / 100, 10), 0)
},
G: function (d) {
let y = d.getFullYear()
const V = parseInt(_formats.V(d), 10)
const W = parseInt(_formats.W(d), 10)
if (W > V) {
y++
} elseif (W === 0 && V >= 52) {
y--
}
return y
},
H: ['getHours', '0'],
I: function (d) {
const I = d.getHours() % 12
return _xPad(I === 0 ? 12 : I, 0)
},
j: function (d) {
let ms = d - newDate('' + d.getFullYear() + '/1/1 GMT')
// Line differs from Yahoo implementation which would be
// equivalent to replacing it here with:
ms += d.getTimezoneOffset() * 60000
const doy = parseInt(ms / 60000 / 60 / 24, 10) + 1
return _xPad(doy, 0, 100)
},
k: ['getHours', '0'],
// not in PHP, but implemented here (as in Yahoo)
l: function (d) {
const l = d.getHours() % 12
return _xPad(l === 0 ? 12 : l, ' ')
},
m: function (d) {
return _xPad(d.getMonth() + 1, 0)
},
M: ['getMinutes', '0'],
p: function (d) {
return lcTime.p[d.getHours() >= 12 ? 1 : 0]
},
P: function (d) {
return lcTime.P[d.getHours() >= 12 ? 1 : 0]
},
s: function (d) {
// Yahoo uses return parseInt(d.getTime()/1000, 10);
returnDate.parse(d) / 1000
},
S: ['getSeconds', '0'],
u: function (d) {
const dow = d.getDay()
return ((dow === 0) ? 7 : dow)
},
U: function (d) {
const doy = parseInt(_formats.j(d), 10)
const rdow = 6 - d.getDay()
const woy = parseInt((doy + rdow) / 7, 10)
return _xPad(woy, 0)
},
V: function (d) {
const woy = parseInt(_formats.W(d), 10)
const dow11 = (newDate('' + d.getFullYear() + '/1/1')).getDay()
// First week is 01 and not 00 as in the case of %U and %W,
// so we add 1 to the final result except if day 1 of the year
// is a Monday (then %W returns 01).
// We also need to subtract 1 if the day 1 of the year is
// Friday-Sunday, so the resulting equation becomes:
let idow = woy + (dow11 > 4 || dow11 <= 1 ? 0 : 1)
if (idow === 53 && (newDate('' + d.getFullYear() + '/12/31')).getDay() < 4) {
idow = 1
} elseif (idow === 0) {
idow = _formats.V(newDate('' + (d.getFullYear() - 1) + '/12/31'))
}
return _xPad(idow, 0)
},
w: 'getDay',
W: function (d) {
const doy = parseInt(_formats.j(d), 10)
const rdow = 7 - _formats.u(d)
const woy = parseInt((doy + rdow) / 7, 10)
return _xPad(woy, 0, 10)
},
y: function (d) {
return _xPad(d.getFullYear() % 100, 0)
},
Y: 'getFullYear',
z: function (d) {
const o = d.getTimezoneOffset()
const H = _xPad(parseInt(Math.abs(o / 60), 10), 0)
const M = _xPad(o % 60, 0)
return (o > 0 ? '-' : '+') + H + M
},
Z: function (d) {
return d.toString().replace(/^.*\(([^)]+)\)$/, '$1')
},
'%': function (d) {
return'%'
}
}
const _date = (typeof timestamp === 'undefined')
? newDate()
: (timestamp instanceofDate)
? newDate(timestamp)
: newDate(timestamp * 1000)
const _aggregates = {
c: 'locale',
D: '%m/%d/%y',
F: '%y-%m-%d',
h: '%b',
n: '\n',
r: 'locale',
R: '%H:%M',
t: '\t',
T: '%H:%M:%S',
x: 'locale',
X: 'locale'
}
// First replace aggregates (run in a loop because an agg may be made up of other aggs)
while (fmt.match(/%[cDFhnrRtTxX]/)) {
fmt = fmt.replace(/%([cDFhnrRtTxX])/g, function (m0, m1) {
const f = _aggregates[m1]
return (f === 'locale' ? lcTime[m1] : f)
})
}
// Now replace formats - we need a closure so that the date object gets passed through
const str = fmt.replace(/%([aAbBCdegGHIjklmMpPsSuUVwWyYzZ%])/g, function (m0, m1) {
const f = _formats[m1]
if (typeof f === 'string') {
return _date[f]()
} elseif (typeof f === 'function') {
return f(_date)
} elseif (typeof f === 'object' && typeof f[0] === 'string') {
return _xPad(_date[f[0]](), f[1])
} else {
// Shouldn't reach here
return m1
}
})
return str
}
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How to use

You you can install via npm install locutus and require it via require('locutus/php/datetime/strftime'). You could also require the datetime module in full so that you could access datetime.strftime instead.

If you intend to target the browser, you can then use a module bundler such as Parcel, webpack, Browserify, or rollup.js. This can be important because Locutus allows modern JavaScript in the source files, meaning it may not work in all browsers without a build/transpile step. Locutus does transpile all functions to ES5 before publishing to npm.

A community effort

Not unlike Wikipedia, Locutus is an ongoing community effort. Our philosophy follows The McDonald’s Theory. This means that we don't consider it to be a bad thing that many of our functions are first iterations, which may still have their fair share of issues. We hope that these flaws will inspire others to come up with better ideas.

This way of working also means that we don't offer any production guarantees, and recommend to use Locutus inspiration and learning purposes only.

Notes

  • Uses global: locutus to store locale info

Examples

Please note that these examples are distilled from test cases that automatically verify our functions still work correctly. This could explain some quirky ones.

#codeexpected result
1strftime("%A", 1062462400); // Return value will depend on date and locale'Tuesday'

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