Formatting date in Javascript for Sitemap

Question

I am working with a sitemap where the modified date that is being pulled from WP GraphQL is incorrectly formatted which looks like 2021-11-24T17:03:44.597Z . Looking at Google's recommendations it suggests something like: 2021-11-24T16:02:05+00:00

Is there an efficient way of converting this to the recommended format?

Answer 1

How to convert yyyy-mm-dd't'hh:mm:ssZ to normal time javascript?

This should answer your question, just create a const date = new Date('2021-11-24T17:03:44.597Z') and then you can date.getDate() , date.getMonth() etc to format it in a way you need.

Answer 2

You can use the momentjs library and use the following to convert your date:

moment(value).utc().format("LLL");

Or

moment(value).utc().format("M/D/YY");

Also, you can check the official documentation is very good and flexible to do different kinds of date conversions.

As commented @Rawley Fowler you can use DayJs is recommended by momentJS team and is a litter and modernized version to do that kind of conversions, to do it with that library you can use like this:

dayjs(value).utc().format('DD/MM/YYYY') // '25/01/2019'

Or

dayjs(value).utc().format('LLL') // 'January 25, 2019 8:02 PM'

This depends on what kind of format you need.