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Display date in English and Japanese using moment.js or using JQuery/Javascript

I am using moment.js for formatting dates. I want to display date in 'en-JP' culture, but moment.js does not support 'en-JP' language.

Jquery/Javascript code would also be fine.

I want to display date like:

2018年 Aug月 15日 Wednesday

Solution

  • It seems "年", "月", "日" are Japanese for "year", "month", "day" so don't change with the date. So you don't need a library if there's reasonable support for the Intl object via toLocaleString, e.g. 

    var d = new Date();
var lang = 'en',
    year = d.toLocaleString(lang, {year:'numeric'}),
    month = d.toLocaleString(lang, {month:'short'}),
    day = d.toLocaleString(lang, {day:'numeric'}),
    dayName = d.toLocaleString(lang, {weekday:'long'});

console.log(
  `${year}年 ${month}月 ${day}日 ${dayName}`
);