how to use the lightformat function from the date-fns library in typescript

To use the lightformat function from the date-fns library in TypeScript, you will first need to install the library via npm:

index.ts
npm install date-fns
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Then, you can import the function as follows:

index.ts
import { lightFormat } from 'date-fns';
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The lightFormat function takes in two arguments: a date object and a formatting string. The date object can be a Date instance, a timestamp (in milliseconds), or an ISO 8601 string.

The formatting string specifies how the date should be formatted using various tokens, such as yyyy for the year, MM for the month, dd for the day, and so on. For example:

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const date = new Date('2022-02-22T15:30:00Z');
const formattedDate = lightFormat(date, 'yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss');
console.log(formattedDate); // Output: "2022/02/22 15:30:00"
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In this example, we format the date object to print the year, month, and day separated by slashes, followed by the hour, minute, and second separated by colons.

Note that the lightFormat function returns a string representing the formatted date.