How to convert date to the specified string format in nodejs?

Question

I'm reading a file's modification date with fs.statSync() and I'd like to compare it with a String that comes from my database:

This is my file's last modification date:

Fri Mar 24 2017 13:22:01 GMT+0100 (Central Europe Standard Time)

And I'd like to compare with this string:

2016-07-18 12:28:12

How can I do this with Node.JS? Can I somehow create a new date from the String?

rsp · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-24 14:29:20Z

1

You can use Moment parse both of those formats and compare the results.

var date1 = moment(string1, format1, true);
var date2 = moment(string2, format2, true);
if (date1.diff(date2) === 0) {
    // equal
} else {
    // not equal
}

See this answer for parsing dates in different formats:

Check if a string is a date value

Make sure that you parse it with explicit format and you don't let it guess the format, or otherwise you will never be sure if it guessed correctly.

edited Mar 24, 2017 at 14:29

answered Mar 24, 2017 at 14:00

rsp

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