Issues in parsing date using Moment js library

Question

Issues is parsing date using Moment js library

I'm using Moment js library to format date from Json. Date format in json is 2012-09-28 16:18:02 -0400. I want to convert it into this format on client side in this format : 19th Aug 2012 at 10:50 pm. This is what i tried out...

var a= moment("2012-09-28 16:18:02 -0400");
var day=a.format("Do MMMM YYYY, h:mm:ss a");
console.log(day);   //Outputs  28th September 2012, 9:30:00 am

But everytime it shows 9:30:00 am.

How can i resolve this ?

Answer 1

Try adding date format as second parameter to moment(...):

var a= moment("2012-09-28 16:18:02 -0400", "YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss Z");
var day=a.format("MMMM Do YYYY, h:mm:ss a");
console.log(day); ​