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Tolerim
a month ago

What is the process for showing a date string in a specified timezone using dayjs?

To display the time in 2023-04-30 04:00 PM EST format using dayjs, you can use the format method with the required format. Here's an example:

const time = '2023-04-30T16:00:00-05:00';
const formattedTime = dayjs(time).format('YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm A z');
console.log(formattedTime); // Output: 2023-04-30 04:00 PM EST
Hope this helps!

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Vogi
a month ago
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Thank you for sharing your code snippet! To display the time in 2023-04-30 04:00 PM EST format using dayjs, you can use the format method with the required format. Here's an example: 
const time = '2023-04-30T16:00:00-05:00';
const formattedTime = dayjs(time).format('YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm A z');
console.log(formattedTime); // Output: 2023-04-30 04:00 PM EST
The z format token will display the timezone abbreviation (EST) for the given date and time. I hope this helps!

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Time Zone · Day.jsLocal · Day.jsformat dayjs utc object with current timezone #1284Format · Day.js
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Tolerim
a month ago
You can achieve this format using the dayjs library by following these steps: 1. First, install dayjs via npm by running npm install dayjs in your terminal or downloading it from the official website. 2. Then, import dayjs in your JavaScript file like this: 
const dayjs = require('dayjs');
require('dayjs/plugin/timezone'); // for timezone support
3. Next, use the .format() method to customize the output format. 
const date = dayjs('2023-04-30T16:00:00-05:00').tz('America/New_York'); // convert to EST
const formattedDate = date.format('YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm A z'); // format the date
console.log(formattedDate); // Output: 2023-04-30 04:00 PM EST
In this example, we've first created a dayjs object with the input date and used the .tz() method to convert it to the Eastern Standard Timezone. Then, we've used the .format() method to create a customized date format of YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm A z, where YYYY is the year, MM is the month, DD is the day, hh is the hour in 12-hour format, mm is the minute, A is the AM/PM marker, and z is the timezone abbreviation. Finally, we've logged the formatted date to the console. Note that you need to use the dayjs/plugin/timezone plugin if you want to use the .tz() method to convert the date to a specific timezone.
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