How to get current date and time as a constant?

Question

I am trying to get the current date and time as a global constant variable when the app first load. Then use this constant variable to call GET method.

Is there a way to do this in JS?

I tried:

const time = moment().format("MMMM DD YYYY, hh:mm:ss");

Answer 1

your constant should be initialize at the loading of the page and not on the http request

you should store the value in a variable and not recall moment() when you perform your http request

const time = moment().format("MMMM DD YYYY, hh:mm:ss");

function displayInitTime() {
  console.log(time);
}

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<button onClick="displayInitTime()">click me</button>