How to convert date based on current users, using client side code

Question

I have a date that I want to display to the user, and the format should be dynamic and based on the user. If I do this I get a format that doesn't fit every user.

var prettyDate = originalDate.format('dd MMM yyy, hh:ss');

For example, in Sweden we would like it displayed as 2014-03-04 but another country would want it as 4/3 2014 So instead of explicitly writing the format in the code, I want to get the preferred date format for the current user. My idea was that I could maybe use the culture found in _spPageContextInfo, or something in SP.DateTimeUtil, but I can't find anything.

Answer 1

Microsoft Ajax library also contains Date.localeFormat Function that formats a date by using the current culture.

Example:

var prettyDate = originalDate.localeFormat('dd MMM yyy, hh:ss');
console.log(prettyDate);