Momemnt.js is a great library to work with dates. One of the features that I really like is ability to parse dates in different formats. Recently our QA has found that dates in short format, where the year is represented by 2 digits behave differently. For example date format is DD.MM.YY in this case we will have following results:
'12.05.88' becomes Thu May 12 1988 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (W. Europe Daylight Time)
'12.05.52' becomes Sun May 12 2052 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (W. Europe Daylight Time)
We got two dates in different centuries.
Turned out to be there is a special function called parseTwoDigitYear and default implementation is:
It means that all years after 68 will be in 20th century but 68 and everything bellow 68 will go to the 21st. What is also interesting that 68 is just a random number. Good thing is that it could be adjusted.
You can override this behavior. As example let's make it return always the year 1995.
You can find more about customization here
'12.05.88' becomes Thu May 12 1988 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (W. Europe Daylight Time)
'12.05.52' becomes Sun May 12 2052 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (W. Europe Daylight Time)
We got two dates in different centuries.
Turned out to be there is a special function called parseTwoDigitYear and default implementation is:
hooks.parseTwoDigitYear = function (input) { return toInt(input) + (toInt(input) > 68 ? 1900 : 2000); };
It means that all years after 68 will be in 20th century but 68 and everything bellow 68 will go to the 21st. What is also interesting that 68 is just a random number. Good thing is that it could be adjusted.
You can override this behavior. As example let's make it return always the year 1995.
moment.parseTwoDigitYear = function (input) { return 1995; };
You can find more about customization here
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