Moment.js Include text in middle of date format

Question

I have a format of "Jan. 27, 2015 at 8:17 AM" that I need to display using moment.js. I'm using the format

moment.format('MMM. D, YYYY at h:mm A z');

Everything works great except for the word "at". How can I get that word to display as a word instead of the "a" in "at" being translated to the "am/pm". Right now using that date format it ends up looking like this: Jan. 27, 2015 amt 8:17 AM. Notice the "amt" instead of "at".

Is there any simple way of getting it to not process the "a" as part of the format? I have already tried splitting the output and manually entering the "at" after the third space but I'd like a cleaner code if possible.

ed1nh0 · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-15 02:32:55Z

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Escape it with square braces

moment().format('MMM. D, YYYY [at] h:mm A z');
// produces:    "Jan. 30, 2015 at 2:46 PM "

edited Mar 15, 2019 at 2:32

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answered Jan 30, 2015 at 19:48

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BlueCaret Over a year ago

That did it! I knew there had to be a way :) Thanks

Samih A Over a year ago

Just one note, make sure you have space between the custom text and the format tokens

Dhiraj Gandhi Over a year ago

What if this text is a variable defined as const. Can we include it?

tonix Over a year ago

How can you add i18n into the mix and translate [at]? So that e.g. moment().locale('en').format('MMM. D, YYYY [at] h:mm A z'); returns "Jul. 27, 2020 at 12:54 PM " whereas moment().locale('it').format('MMM. D, YYYY [at] h:mm A z'); returns "lug. 27, 2020 alle 12:54 PM "? How can we achieve this? Thank you!

Kpo Over a year ago

Might be a bit late but what I do to work with custom format based on the locale is that I put the moment string format directly into my i18n's locale json, so it will load a different string format based on the language I suppose another way would be to just create a string out of pieces if your general format is the same, like 'MMM. D, YYYY [at] h:mm A z' could become 'MMM. D, YYYY [' + i18n('at') + '] h:mm A z' or for magic quote user `MMM. D, YYYY [${i18n('at')}] h:mm A z`

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