MongoDB ObjectID and date extraction

Question

I'm extracting the creation date from the MongoDB ObjectID and output this in Jade template engine. Everything works well, but I would like to "limit" the output a bit...

This is the output in my views: Fri Sep 13 2013 09:40:40 GMT+0200 (Västeuropa, sommartid)

But I would like something shorter, like this instead: Fri Sep 13 2013

Can someone please tell me how to do this.

Answer 1

client._id.getTimestamp() returns a Date Object.

So you'll need to format the date.

Here is how you can do it with dateformat module:

var dateformat = require('dateformat'); // npm install dateformat
// ...
var date = client._id.getTimestamp(),
    dateString = dateFormat(date, "ddd mmm dd yyyy"); // pass it to your jade template