# fecha [](https://travis-ci.org/taylorhakes/fecha)
Lightweight date formatting and parsing (~2KB). Meant to replace parsing and formatting functionality of moment.js.
### NPM
```
npm install fecha --save
```
### Fecha vs Moment
  
    
      |  | Fecha | Moment | 
    
      | Size (Min. and Gzipped) | 2.1KBs | 13.1KBs | 
    
      | Date Parsing | ✓ | ✓ | 
    
      | Date Formatting | ✓ | ✓ | 
    
      | Date Manipulation |  | ✓ | 
    
      | I18n Support | ✓ | ✓ | 
  
## Use it
#### Formatting
`fecha.format` accepts a Date object (or timestamp) and a string format and returns a formatted string. See below for
available format tokens.
Note: `fecha.format` will throw an error when passed invalid parameters
```js
fecha.format(, );
// Custom formats
fecha.format(new Date(2015, 10, 20), 'dddd MMMM Do, YYYY'); // 'Friday November 20th, 2015'
fecha.format(new Date(1998, 5, 3, 15, 23, 10, 350), 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.SSS A'); // '1998-06-03 03:23:10.350 PM'
// Named masks
fecha.format(new Date(2015, 10, 20), 'mediumDate'); // 'Nov 20, 2015'
fecha.format(new Date(2015, 2, 10, 5, 30, 20), 'shortTime'); // '05:30'
// Literals
fecha.format(new Date(2001, 2, 5, 6, 7, 2, 5), '[on] MM-DD-YYYY [at] HH:mm'); // 'on 03-05-2001 at 06:07'
```
#### Parsing
`fecha.parse` accepts a Date string and a string format and returns a Date object. See below for available format tokens.
Note: `fecha.parse` will throw an error when passed invalid parameters
```js
// Custom formats
fecha.parse('February 3rd, 2014', 'MMMM Do, YYYY'); // new Date(2014, 1, 3)
fecha.parse('10-12-10 14:11:12', 'YY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss'); // new Date(2010, 11, 10, 14, 11, 12)
// Named masks
fecha.parse('5/3/98', 'shortDate'); // new Date(1998, 4, 3)
fecha.parse('November 4, 2005', 'longDate'); // new Date(2005, 10, 4)
```
#### i18n Support
```js
// Override fecha.i18n to support any language
fecha.i18n = {
	dayNamesShort: ['Sun', 'Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thur', 'Fri', 'Sat'],
	dayNames: ['Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday'],
	monthNamesShort: ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'],
	monthNames: ['January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December'],
	amPm: ['am', 'pm'],
	// D is the day of the month, function returns something like...  3rd or 11th
	DoFn: function (D) {
		return D + [ 'th', 'st', 'nd', 'rd' ][ D % 10 > 3 ? 0 : (D - D % 10 !== 10) * D % 10 ];
    }
}
```
#### Custom Named Masks
```js
fecha.masks = {
	default: 'ddd MMM DD YYYY HH:mm:ss',
	shortDate: 'M/D/YY',
	mediumDate: 'MMM D, YYYY',
	longDate: 'MMMM D, YYYY',
	fullDate: 'dddd, MMMM D, YYYY',
	shortTime: 'HH:mm',
	mediumTime: 'HH:mm:ss',
	longTime: 'HH:mm:ss.SSS'
};
// Create a new mask
fecha.masks.myMask = 'HH:mm:ss YY/MM/DD';
// Use it
fecha.format(new Date(2014, 5, 6, 14, 10, 45), 'myMask'); // '14:10:45 14/06/06'
```
### Formatting Tokens
  
    
      |  | Token | Output | 
    
      | Month | M | 1 2 ... 11 12 | 
    
      |  | MM | 01 02 ... 11 12 | 
    
      |  | MMM | Jan Feb ... Nov Dec | 
    
      |  | MMMM | January February ... November December | 
    
      | Day of Month | D | 1 2 ... 30 31 | 
    
      |  | Do | 1st 2nd ... 30th 31st | 
    
      |  | DD | 01 02 ... 30 31 | 
    
      | Day of Week | d | 0 1 ... 5 6 | 
    
      |  | ddd | Sun Mon ... Fri Sat | 
    
      |  | dddd | Sunday Monday ... Friday Saturday | 
    
      | Year | YY | 70 71 ... 29 30 | 
    
      |  | YYYY | 1970 1971 ... 2029 2030 | 
    
      | AM/PM | A | AM PM | 
    
      |  | a | am pm | 
    
      | Hour | H | 0 1 ... 22 23 | 
    
      |  | HH | 00 01 ... 22 23 | 
    
      |  | h | 1 2 ... 11 12 | 
    
      |  | hh | 01 02 ... 11 12 | 
    
      | Minute | m | 0 1 ... 58 59 | 
    
      |  | mm | 00 01 ... 58 59 | 
    
      | Second | s | 0 1 ... 58 59 | 
    
      |  | ss | 00 01 ... 58 59 | 
    
      | Fractional Second | S | 0 1 ... 8 9 | 
    
      |  | SS | 0 1 ... 98 99 | 
    
      |  | SSS | 0 1 ... 998 999 | 
    
      | Timezone | ZZ | -0700 -0600 ... +0600 +0700 |