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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
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

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 locale

<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>