as-date-utils

does date manipulation and formatting

Functionality

DateUtils class contains the following methods:

formatDate(date_object, format_string) - returns a date in the specified format.
getDateFromFormat(date_string , format_string) - if the date string matches the format string, it returns the getTime() of the date; if it does not match, it returns 0.
parseDate(date_string [, prefer_euro_format]) - takes a date string and tries to match it to a number of possible date formats to get the value. A second argument may be passed to instruct the method to search for formats like d/M/y (european format) before M/d/y (American). Returns a Date object or null if no patterns match.
isDate(date_string, format_string) - returns true if date string matches format and is a valid date, otherwise returns false.
compareDates(date1,date1format,date2,date2format) - compares two date strings to see which is greater. Returns:
- 1 if date1 is greater than date2
- 0 if date2 is greater than date1 of if they are the same
- -1 if either of the dates is in an invalid format
secondsToDate(seconds, format) - returns a string representing the date given in seconds.
utcSeconds() - returns UTC in seconds.
utcMiliseconds() - returns UTC in milliseconds.
dateToSeconds(string, format) - returns a date in seconds as specified by the given string.
timeToSeconds(string) - returns specified string as seconds.