This is the most robust display option. It takes a string of tokens and replaces them with their corresponding values. new DateTime().toString(); new DateTime().toString("dddd, MMMM Do YYYY, h:mm:ss a"); new DateTime().toString("ddd, hA");

	Token	Output
**Month**	M	1 2 ... 11 12
	Mo	1st 2nd ... 11th 12th
	MM	01 02 ... 11 12
	MMM	Jan Feb ... Nov Dec
	MMMM	January February ... November December
**Quarter**	Q	1 2 3 4
	Qo	1st 2nd 3rd 4th
**Day of Month**	D	1 2 ... 30 31
	Do	1st 2nd ... 30th 31st
	DD	01 02 ... 30 31
**Day of Year**	DDD	1 2 ... 364 365
	DDDo	1st 2nd ... 364th 365th
	DDDD	001 002 ... 364 365
**Day of Week**	d	0 1 ... 5 6
	do	0th 1st ... 5th 6th
	dd	Su Mo ... Fr Sa
	ddd	Sun Mon ... Fri Sat
	dddd	Sunday Monday ... Friday Saturday
**Day of Week (Locale)**	e	0 1 ... 5 6
**Day of Week (ISO)**	E	1 2 ... 6 7
**Week of Year**	w	1 2 ... 52 53
	wo	1st 2nd ... 52nd 53rd
	ww	01 02 ... 52 53
**Week of Year (ISO)**	W	1 2 ... 52 53
	Wo	1st 2nd ... 52nd 53rd
	WW	01 02 ... 52 53
**Year**	YY	70 71 ... 29 30
	YYYY	1970 1971 ... 2029 2030
	Y	1970 1971 ... 9999 +10000 +10001 *Note:** This complies with the ISO 8601 standard for dates past the year 9999
**Week Year**	gg	70 71 ... 29 30
	gggg	1970 1971 ... 2029 2030
**Week Year (ISO)**	GG	70 71 ... 29 30
	GGGG	1970 1971 ... 2029 2030
**AM/PM**	A	AM PM
	a	am pm
**Hour**	H	0 1 ... 22 23
	HH	00 01 ... 22 23
	h	1 2 ... 11 12
	hh	01 02 ... 11 12
	k	1 2 ... 23 24
	kk	01 02 ... 23 24
**Minute**	m	0 1 ... 58 59
	mm	00 01 ... 58 59
**Second**	s	0 1 ... 58 59
	ss	00 01 ... 58 59
**Fractional Second**	S	0 1 ... 8 9
	SS	00 01 ... 98 99
	SSS	000 001 ... 998 999
	SSSS ... SSSSSSSSS	000[0..] 001[0..] ... 998[0..] 999[0..]
**Time Zone**	z or zz	EST CST ... MST PST **Note:** as of **1.6.0**, the z/zz format tokens have been deprecated from plain DateTime objects. [Read more about it here.](https://github.com/DateTime/DateTime/issues/162) However, they _do_ work if you are using a specific time zone with the DateTime-timezone addon.
	Z	-07:00 -06:00 ... +06:00 +07:00
	ZZ	-0700 -0600 ... +0600 +0700
**Unix Timestamp**	X	1360013296
**Unix Millisecond Timestamp**	x	1360013296123

## humanize

Returns a string representing the duration between the date and now for a human. By default, the return string is suffixless. If you want a suffix, pass in true as seen below.

DateTime.today().humanize();

### Localized formats Because preferred formatting differs based on locale, there are a few tokens that can be used to format a DateTime based on its locale. There are upper and lower case variations on the same formats. The lowercase version is intended to be the shortened version of its uppercase counterpart.

**Time**	LT	8:30 PM
**Time with seconds**	LTS	8:30:25 PM
**Month numeral, day of month, year**	L	09/04/1986
	l	9/4/1986
**Month name, day of month, year**	LL	September 4, 1986
	ll	Sep 4, 1986
**Month name, day of month, year, time**	LLL	September 4, 1986 8:30 PM
	lll	Sep 4, 1986 8:30 PM
**Month name, day of month, day of week, year, time**	LLLL	Thursday, September 4, 1986 8:30 PM
	llll	Thu, Sep 4, 1986 8:30 PM

### Escaping characters To escape characters in format strings, you can wrap the characters in square brackets. new DateTime().toString('[today] dddd'); #### Similarities and differences with LDML **Note:** While these date formats are very similar to LDML date formats, there are a few minor differences regarding day of month, day of year, and day of week. For a breakdown of a few different date formatting tokens across different locales, see [this chart of date formatting tokens.](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtgZluze7WMJdDBOLUZfSFIzenIwOHNjaWZoeGFqbWc&hl=en_US#gid=0) ### Formatting speed To compare DateTime.js formatting speed against other libraries, check out [this comparison against other libraries](https://jsperf.com/date-formatting/49). ### Other tokens If you are more comfortable working with strftime instead of LDML-like parsing tokens, you can use Ben Oakes' plugin. [benjaminoakes/DateTime-strftime](https://github.com/benjaminoakes/DateTime-strftime). ### Default format calling `DateTime#toString` without a format will default to `DateTime.defaultFormat`. Out of the box, `DateTime.defaultFormat` is the ISO8601 format `YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ssZ`. when in UTC mode, the default format is governed by `DateTime.defaultFormatUtc` which is in the format `YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss[Z]`. This returns `Z` as the offset, instead of `+00:00`. In certain instances, a local timezone (such as `Atlantic/Reykjavik`) may have a zero offset, and will be considered to be UTC. In such cases, it may be useful to set `DateTime.defaultFormat` and `DateTime.defaultFormatUtc` to use the same formatting.