Moment.js conversion of RFC2822 date

Question

I have a date as '04 FEB 1994' which I'm trying to convert into a date object for comparison.

I've tried a whole bunch of variations, the current one is...

var trydate = moment(licDob, "DD-MMM-YYYY");
var momentObj = moment(trydate);
var momentString = momentObj.format('YYYY-MM-DD');

where licDob is 04 FEB 1994. momentObj is coming back as 853506000000 which makes momentString 1997-01-18.

Guidance much appreciated.

Answer 1

use

var newTry = moment(licDob,'DD MMM YYYY').toDate()

considering you want to convert it to Date()

Answer 2

You were close the the right solution. You have to use the moment constructor with 2 parameters. The 1st parameter is your string date and the 2nd is the format.

In your case the correct format is DD MMM YYYY

 const stringDate = "04 FEB 1994"; const momentDate = moment(stringDate, "DD MMM YYYY"); console.log("Formatted:", momentDate.format("DD/MM/YYYY")); console.log("EPOCH:", momentDate.valueOf())

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