How do I output an ISO-8601 formatted string in Javascript?

Question

I have a date object from which I'd like to render an HTML snippet like <abbr title="2010-04-02T14:12:07">A couple days ago</abbr>. I have the "relative time in words" portion from another library. How do I render the title portion?

I've tried the following:

isoDate: function(msSinceEpoch) {
  var d = new Date(msSinceEpoch);
  return d.getUTCFullYear() + '-' + (d.getUTCMonth() + 1) + '-' + d.getUTCDate() + 'T'
         d.getUTCHours() + ':' + d.getUTCMinutes() + ':' + d.getUTCSeconds();
}

But that gives me

"2010-4-2T"

Answer 1

There is a '+' missing after the 'T'

isoDate: function(msSinceEpoch) {
  var d = new Date(msSinceEpoch);
  return d.getUTCFullYear() + '-' + (d.getUTCMonth() + 1) + '-' + d.getUTCDate() + 'T'
         + d.getUTCHours() + ':' + d.getUTCMinutes() + ':' + d.getUTCSeconds();
}

should do it.

For the leading zeros you could use this from here:

function PadDigits(n, totalDigits) 
{ 
    n = n.toString(); 
    var pd = ''; 
    if (totalDigits > n.length) 
    { 
        for (i=0; i < (totalDigits-n.length); i++) 
        { 
            pd += '0'; 
        } 
    } 
    return pd + n.toString(); 
} 

Using it like this:

PadDigits(d.getUTCHours(),2)

Answer 2

I would just use this small extension to Date - http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/date-time-format

var date = new Date(msSinceEpoch);
date.format("isoDateTime"); // 2007-06-09T17:46:21

Answer 3

Last example on page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference:Global_Objects:Date

/* use a function for the exact format desired... */
function ISODateString(d){
 function pad(n){return n<10 ? '0'+n : n}
 return d.getUTCFullYear()+'-'
      + pad(d.getUTCMonth()+1)+'-'
      + pad(d.getUTCDate())+'T'
      + pad(d.getUTCHours())+':'
      + pad(d.getUTCMinutes())+':'
      + pad(d.getUTCSeconds())+'Z'}

var d = new Date();
print(ISODateString(d)); // prints something like 2009-09-28T19:03:12Z