Atom editor: snippet for inserting a timestamp

Question

Below is an Atom snippet I was playing with. What I want to do is insert a timestamp with a developer's name at the end. This is useful when multiple folks are working on the same codebase and you need to comment out some code or add a comment. This way other developers know who did what, and when they did it. I've found it very useful and wanted to create a snippet to do this.

However, as you can see from the snippet, it's very ugly...JS is not my forte. Is there a clean way to do this?

time => tab => YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM / NAME

'.source':
  'Timestamp':
    'prefix': 'time'
    'body': """
      # #{datetime = new Date(); datetime.getFullYear()}-#{(datetime.getMonth()+1)}-#{datetime.getDate()} #{datetime.getHours()}:#{datetime.getMinutes()} / NAME
    """

you might want to use something like moment.js http://momentjs.com/ — Jed Schneider, Sep 04 '14 at 21:40

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

The closest you'll get to this without resorting to a library like moment.js or Date.js is by using toISOString()

new Date().toISOString()

This will print the date like this:

2014-09-05T07:15:14.840Z

The downside is that this will always print the date in UTC.

Some more options are listed here: How to format a JavaScript date - maybe you'll see something there. Based on a quick glance of the answers, what you're doing looks pretty good actually.

Jasdeep Khalsa · Answer 2 · 2014-09-05T14:50:46.523

For using momentjs here is minimal example of a snippet: http://jsfiddle.net/jasdeepkhalsa/a0m9s3rc/

HTML & JavaScript - (index.html)

<!doctype html>
<html>    
    <body>
        <script src="http://momentjs.com/downloads/moment.min.js"></script>
        <script>
            (function (name) {
                var date = moment().format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM'),
                    name = name || '< Developer Name >',
                    string = date + ' / ' + name;
                return console.log(string);
            })('Dan L');
        </script>
    </body>
</html>

This outputs into the browser's console:

2014-09-05 15:09 / Dan L

Note: This currently outputs to the browser's F12 developer tool's console using console.log, which you could change to output to the page with document.write in the return statement instead.

This has nothing to do with the requested feature. OP asks for a snippet to insert the timestamp in the Atom editor. Not as Javascript (in an HTML page or whatever). — Kafoso, Jan 05 '16 at 19:49

Atom editor: snippet for inserting a timestamp

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