Section 1.1: Parsing Native JavaScript Date Objects

To begin, we can utilize native JavaScript date objects as parameters in the dayjs function. Here’s how you can do it:

const d = new Date(2020, 8, 18);

const dt = dayjs(d);

console.log(dt);

Section 1.2: Converting Plain JavaScript Objects to Dates

To convert standard JavaScript objects into date formats, the objectSupport plugin comes in handy. Here’s an example of its usage:

const dayjs = require("dayjs");

const objectSupport = require("dayjs/plugin/objectSupport");

dayjs.extend(objectSupport);

const dt = dayjs({

year: 2020,

month: 3,

day: 5,

hour: 15,

minute: 10,

second: 3,

millisecond: 123

});

console.log(dt);

In this example, we import both the Day.js library and the objectSupport plugin, enabling us to convert an object into a date format.

Subsection 1.2.1: Understanding the Object Support Plugin

Section 1.3: Converting JavaScript Arrays into Dates

Day.js also includes the ArraySupport plugin, which allows the parsing of an array of numbers into dates. Here’s how you can implement this:

const dayjs = require("dayjs");

const arraySupport = require("dayjs/plugin/arraySupport");

dayjs.extend(arraySupport);

const dt = dayjs([2020, 1, 14, 15, 25, 50, 125]);

console.log(dt);

In this snippet, we first import Day.js and the arraySupport plugin. By extending Day.js with this plugin, we can parse an array into a date format. Remember, the array should follow the order: year, month, day, hour, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds.