// From 2.8.1 onward moment.locale(String); moment.locale(String[]); moment.locale(String, Object);

// Deprecated in 2.8.1 moment.lang(String); moment.lang(String[]); moment.lang(String, Object);


By default, Moment.js comes with English (United States) locale strings. If you need other locales, you can load them into Moment.js for later use.

To load a locale, pass the key and the string values to moment.locale.

More details on each of the parts of the locale bundle can be found in the customization section.

moment.locale('fr', {
    months : 'janvier_février_mars_avril_mai_juin_juillet_août_septembre_octobre_novembre_décembre'.split('_'),
    monthsShort : 'janv._févr._mars_avr._mai_juin_juil._août_sept._oct._nov._déc.'.split('_'),
    monthsParseExact : true,
    weekdays : 'dimanche_lundi_mardi_mercredi_jeudi_vendredi_samedi'.split('_'),
    weekdaysShort : 'dim._lun._mar._mer._jeu._ven._sam.'.split('_'),
    weekdaysMin : 'Di_Lu_Ma_Me_Je_Ve_Sa'.split('_'),
    weekdaysParseExact : true,
    longDateFormat : {
        LT : 'HH:mm',
        LTS : 'HH:mm:ss',
        L : 'DD/MM/YYYY',
        LL : 'D MMMM YYYY',
        LLL : 'D MMMM YYYY HH:mm',
        LLLL : 'dddd D MMMM YYYY HH:mm'
    },
    calendar : {
        sameDay : '[Aujourd’hui à] LT',
        nextDay : '[Demain à] LT',
        nextWeek : 'dddd [à] LT',
        lastDay : '[Hier à] LT',
        lastWeek : 'dddd [dernier à] LT',
        sameElse : 'L'
    },
    relativeTime : {
        future : 'dans %s',
        past : 'il y a %s',
        s : 'quelques secondes',
        m : 'une minute',
        mm : '%d minutes',
        h : 'une heure',
        hh : '%d heures',
        d : 'un jour',
        dd : '%d jours',
        M : 'un mois',
        MM : '%d mois',
        y : 'un an',
        yy : '%d ans'
    },
    dayOfMonthOrdinalParse : /\d{1,2}(er|e)/,
    ordinal : function (number) {
        return number + (number === 1 ? 'er' : 'e');
    },
    meridiemParse : /PD|MD/,
    isPM : function (input) {
        return input.charAt(0) === 'M';
    },
    // In case the meridiem units are not separated around 12, then implement
    // this function (look at locale/id.js for an example).
    // meridiemHour : function (hour, meridiem) {
    //     return /* 0-23 hour, given meridiem token and hour 1-12 */ ;
    // },
    meridiem : function (hours, minutes, isLower) {
        return hours < 12 ? 'PD' : 'MD';
    },
    week : {
        dow : 1, // Monday is the first day of the week.
        doy : 4  // Used to determine first week of the year.
    }
});

Details about week.dow and week.doy can be found in the customization section.

Once you load a locale, it becomes the active locale. To change active locales, simply call moment.locale with the key of a loaded locale.

moment.locale('fr');
moment(1316116057189).fromNow(); // il y a une heure
moment.locale('en');
moment(1316116057189).fromNow(); // an hour ago

As of 2.21.0, Moment will console.warn if the locale is unavailable.

As of 2.8.0, changing the global locale doesn't affect existing instances.

moment.locale('fr');
var m = moment(1316116057189);
m.fromNow(); // il y a une heure

moment.locale('en');
m.fromNow(); // il y a une heure
moment(1316116057189).fromNow(); // an hour ago

moment.locale returns the locale used. This is useful because Moment won't change locales if it doesn't know the one you specify.

moment.locale('fr'); // 'fr'
moment.locale('tq'); // 'fr'

You may also specify a list of locales, and Moment will use the first one it has localizations for.

moment.locale(['tq', 'fr']); // 'fr'

Moment will also try locale specifier substrings from most-specific to least-specific until it finds a locale it knows. This is useful when supplying Moment with a locale string pulled from the user's environment, such as window.navigator.language.

moment.locale('en-nz'); // 'en'

Finally, Moment will search intelligently through an array of locales and their substrings.

moment.locale(['en-nz', 'en-au']); // 'en-au', not 'en'

The logic works as follows -- the next locale is picked and tried as-is. If that fails, the code normally tries to chop the last bit (normally the country designation) and try again. However, if the next array element has the same or longer prefix as the one to be tried, the iteration continues. So for example if the array has the sequence

"AA-BB", "AA-CC", "XX-YY"

then first "AA-BB" is tried, then a naive solution would try "AA", but this one instead checks to see that "AA-CC" is actually more concrete than "AA", so it tries "AA-CC" next, and only after it fails (if it fails) it tries "AA", because "XX-YY" does not have "AA" as prefix. So in the end the following locales are tried in this order (assuming all fail so the next one is tried):

"AA-BB", "AA-CC", "AA", "XX-YY", "XX"