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Date fns

⏳ Modern JavaScript date utility library ⌛️

From date-fns·Updated June 23, 2026·View on GitHub·

🔥️ **NEW**: [date-fns v4.0 with first-class time zone support is out!](https://blog.date-fns.org/v40-with-time-zone-support/) The project is written primarily in TypeScript, first published in 2014. It has gained significant community traction with 36,585 stars and 1,967 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: date, date-fns, hacktoberfest, javascript, modules.

Latest release: v5.0.0-alpha.0
May 29, 2026View Changelog →

🔥️ NEW: date-fns v4.0 with first-class time zone support is out!

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date-fns provides the most comprehensive, yet simple and consistent toolset for manipulating JavaScript dates in a browser & Node.js

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It's like Lodash for dates

  • It has 200+ functions for all occasions.
  • Modular: Pick what you need. Works with webpack, Browserify, or Rollup and also supports tree-shaking.
  • Native dates: Uses existing native type. It doesn't extend core objects for safety's sake.
  • Immutable & Pure: Built using pure functions and always returns a new date instance.
  • TypeScript: The library is 100% TypeScript with brand-new handcrafted types.
  • I18n: Dozens of locales. Include only what you need.
  • and many more benefits
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import { compareAsc, format } from "date-fns"; format(new Date(2014, 1, 11), "yyyy-MM-dd"); //=> '2014-02-11' const dates = [ new Date(1995, 6, 2), new Date(1987, 1, 11), new Date(1989, 6, 10), ]; dates.sort(compareAsc); //=> [ // Wed Feb 11 1987 00:00:00, // Mon Jul 10 1989 00:00:00, // Sun Jul 02 1995 00:00:00 // ]

The library is available as an npm package.
To install the package run:

bash
npm install date-fns --save

Docs

See date-fns.org for more details, API,
and other docs.

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License

MIT © Sasha Koss

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