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Humanize dates in vanilla JavaScript
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console.log(fancyDate(556095600000)) | |
// August 16th, 1987 | |
function fancyDate(input) { | |
var input = new Date(input) | |
var monthNames = ["January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"] | |
var monthName = monthNames[input.getMonth()] | |
var day = input.getDate() | |
if (day > 3 && day < 21) { | |
date = day + "th" | |
} else { | |
switch (day % 10) { | |
case 1: | |
date = day + "st" | |
break; | |
case 2: | |
date = day + "nd" | |
break; | |
case 3: | |
date = day + "rd" | |
break; | |
default: | |
date = day + "th" | |
break; | |
} | |
} | |
var year = input.getFullYear() | |
return monthName + " " + date + ", " + year | |
} |
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