D3.js Time Format

This module provides an approximate JavaScript implementation of the venerable strptime and strftime functions from the C standard library, and can be used to parse or format dates in a variety of locale-specific representations. To format a date, create a formatter from a specifier (a string with the desired format directives, indicated by %); then pass a date to the formatter, which returns a string. For example, to convert the current date to a human-readable string: