September 2008
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JavaScript Date Formatting - An Unorthodox Way
Most date formatting implementations use format strings where format specifiers like “mm”, “mmm”, “HH”, etc. are used for selecting different components of a date. Here’s a different approach that allows you to use more human-readable format specifiers (while being rather verbose).
Date.prototype.format = function (fmt) {
var date = this;
return...
