strftime

Just another attempt at formatting JavaScript dates using the cough familiar strftime syntax. I wrote this for a tool that enables you to build up the strftime format string interactively. You can check it out in action here.

usage

strftime is a method on the Date object as well as Date.prototype. To for a specific instance of the Date object, you can do

var date = new Date(2011, 0, 1);
date.strftime("%s"); // returns 1293858000, the number of seconds since the Epoch

or if you would like to format the current time:

Date.strftime("%s");

tests

I haven't gotten around to write tests yet, so use with care!