How to Get Current Date and Time in Typescript

Question

Summary

I'm creating my first extension for VSCode in TypeScript, and want to create a new information message to display current date/time.

What I've tried

I've tried looking for some data/time keyword in the list of vscode key bindings. I've also tried looking for a function to get system date/time on Google only to come across solutions explaining data/time syntax and how to display a specific date/time but nothing to get the CURRENT data/time. I've also looked for it in vscode API documentation.

Code part

According to my understanding the code should be in extension.ts file in activate section where I register the command to implement showInformationMessage function call and send a string to it containing the date/time. So here is the code around the line where I store the current date/time:


  let disposableShowTime = vscode.commands.registerCommand(
    "extension.showTime",
    () => {
      // Display a message box to the user
      let dateTime = "22 March, 2019 12:45PM"; // store current data/time instead
      vscode.window.showInformationMessage("Current time: " + dateTime);
    }
  );

Desired output: [Current Date/Time]

Actual output: 22 March, 2019 12:45PM

Accepted Answer

To retrieve the current system Date/Time in javaScript/TypeScript you need to create a new Date object using parameterless constructor, like this:

let dateTime = new Date()

Answer 2

If you use angular and Moment type

import * as moment from 'moment';
...
//Change DATE_TIME_FORMAT by the format need
const DATE_TIME_FORMAT = 'YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm'; 
let _now: Moment;
_now = moment(new Date(), DATE_TIME_FORMAT);

Answer 3

Must Read

Maybe Luxon could be your friend

For Typescript I really like Luxon

npm install --save luxon
npm install --save-dev @types/luxon

and then

import { DateTime } from 'luxon';
DateTime.now().toLocaleString(DateTime.DATE_FULL);

How to Get Current Date and Time in Typescript

3 Answers

Must Read

Maybe Luxon could be your friend

Alexander Ross