188
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How do I get the first and last day and time of the current month in the following format in moment.js:

2016-09-01 00:00

I can get the current date and time like this: moment().format('YYYY-MM-DD h:m') which will output in the above format.

However I need to get the date and time of the first and last day of the current month, any way to do this?

EDIT: My question is different from this one because that asks for a given month that the user already has whereas I am asking for the current month along with asking for a specific format of the date that is not mentioned in the other so called 'duplicate'.

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Moment.js support the function to get the first and last day of month, you can get that for current month by : moment().startOf('month') and moment().endOf('month') . I think you should view the answer from thisTan Le
@TanLe Yes but this outputs in the following format: Thu Sep 01 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0100 (GMT Summer Time) I want the format as I've mentioned in my questionuser3574492
That function return the moment object for day, so you can use format to output with any format that you want. Like : moment().startOf('month').format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm').Tan Le
@AuditeMarlow Nice try but the questions are slightly different as explained in my edit.user3574492

8 Answers

499
votes

In case anyone missed the comments on the original question, you can use built-in methods (works as of Moment 1.7):

const startOfMonth = moment().startOf('month').format('YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm');
const endOfMonth   = moment().endOf('month').format('YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm');
44
votes

There would be another way to do this:

var begin = moment().format("YYYY-MM-01");
var end = moment().format("YYYY-MM-") + moment().daysInMonth();
30
votes

You can do this without moment.js

A way to do this in native Javascript code :

var date = new Date(), y = date.getFullYear(), m = date.getMonth();
var firstDay = new Date(y, m, 1);
var lastDay = new Date(y, m + 1, 0);

firstDay = moment(firstDay).format(yourFormat);
lastDay = moment(lastDay).format(yourFormat);
17
votes

moment startOf() and endOf() is the answer you are searching for.. For Example:-

moment().startOf('year');    // set to January 1st, 12:00 am this year
moment().startOf('month');   // set to the first of this month, 12:00 am
moment().startOf('week');    // set to the first day of this week, 12:00 am
moment().startOf('day');     // set to 12:00 am today
12
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Assuming you are using a Date range Picker to retrieve the dates. You could do something like to to get what you want.

$('#daterange-btn').daterangepicker({
            ranges: {
                'Today': [moment(), moment()],
                'Yesterday': [moment().subtract(1, 'days'), moment().subtract(1, 'days')],
                'Last 7 Days': [moment().subtract(6, 'days'), moment()],
                'Last 30 Days': [moment().subtract(29, 'days'), moment()],
                'This Month': [moment().startOf('month'), moment().endOf('month')],
                'Last Month': [moment().subtract(1, 'month').startOf('month'), moment().subtract(1, 'month').endOf('month')]
            },
            startDate: moment().subtract(29, 'days'),
            endDate: moment()
        }, function (start, end) {
      alert( 'Date is between' + start.format('YYYY-MM-DD h:m') + 'and' + end.format('YYYY-MM-DD h:m')}
1
votes

First and Last Date of current Month In the moment.js

console.log("current month first date");
    const firstdate = moment().startOf('month').format('DD-MM-YYYY');
console.log(firstdate);

console.log("current month last date");
    const lastdate=moment().endOf('month').format("DD-MM-YYYY"); 
console.log(lastdate); 
1
votes

As simple we can use daysInMonth() and endOf()

const firstDay = moment('2016-09-15 00:00', 'YYYY-MM-DD h:m').startOf('month').format('D')
const lastDay = moment('2016-09-15 00:00', 'YYYY-MM-DD h:m').endOf('month').format('D')
1
votes

I ran into some issues because I wasn't aware that moment().endOf() mutates the input date, so I used this work around.

let thisMoment = moment();
let endOfMonth = moment(thisMoment).endOf('month');
let startOfMonth = moment(thisMoment).startOf('month');