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useDateFormat

Get the formatted date according to the string of tokens passed in, inspired by dayjs.

List of all available formats (HH:mm:ss by default):

Format	Output	Description
YY	18	Two-digit year
YYYY	2018	Four-digit year
M	1-12	The month, beginning at 1
MM	01-12	The month, 2-digits
MMM	Jan-Dec	The abbreviated month name
MMMM	January-December	The full month name
D	1-31	The day of the month
DD	01-31	The day of the month, 2-digits
H	0-23	The hour
HH	00-23	The hour, 2-digits
h	1-12	The hour, 12-hour clock
hh	01-12	The hour, 12-hour clock, 2-digits
m	0-59	The minute
mm	00-59	The minute, 2-digits
s	0-59	The second
ss	00-59	The second, 2-digits
SSS	000-999	The millisecond, 3-digits
A	AM PM	The meridiem
AA	A.M. P.M.	The meridiem, periods
a	am pm	The meridiem, lowercase
aa	a.m. p.m.	The meridiem, lowercase and periods
d	0-6	The day of the week, with Sunday as 0
dd	S-S	The min name of the day of the week
ddd	Sun-Sat	The short name of the day of the week
dddd	Sunday-Saturday	The name of the day of the week

• Meridiem is customizable by defining customMeridiem in options.

Usage

Basic

<script setup lang="ts">

import { ref, computed } from 'vue-demi'
import { useNow, useDateFormat } from '@vueuse/core'

const formatted = useDateFormat(useNow(), 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss')

</script>

<template>
  <div>{{ formatted }}</div>
</template>

Use with locales

<script setup lang="ts">

import { ref, computed } from 'vue-demi'
import { useNow, useDateFormat } from '@vueuse/core'

const formatted = useDateFormat(useNow(), 'YYYY-MM-DD (ddd)', { locales: 'en-US' })

</script>

<template>
  <div>{{ formatted }}</div>
</template>

Use with custom meridiem

<script setup lang="ts">

import { ref, computed } from 'vue-demi'
import { useNow, useDateFormat } from '@vueuse/core'

const customMeridiem = (hours: number, minutes: number, isLowercase?: boolean, hasPeriod?: boolean) => {
  const m = hours > 11 ? (isLowercase ? 'μμ' : 'ΜΜ') : (isLowercase ? 'πμ' : 'ΠΜ')
  return hasPeriod ? m.split('').reduce((acc, curr) => acc += `${curr}.`, '') : m
}

const am = useDateFormat('2022-01-01 05:05:05', 'hh:mm:ss A', { customMeridiem })
// am.value = '05:05:05 ΠΜ'
const pm = useDateFormat('2022-01-01 17:05:05', 'hh:mm:ss AA', { customMeridiem })
// pm.value = '05:05:05 Μ.Μ.'

</script>