How can I include plain text in a date format string?

Question

I am using from Ant design to display the dates.

I'd like to achieve a format like: "2 years, 4 months, 5 days HH:mm:ss"

I have format={"M months D HH:mm:ss"}, but of course this interprets the "m" in months as the symbol for minutes, and so on: 3 42onth36 25 17:42:36.

How could I achieve "3 months 25 days 17:42:36"?

Edit: Thanks to Samathingamajig I got this working. Now I'm wondering, how can I insert a newline? I tried the following, but of course the second line will just show the full countdown in HH:mm:ss

I've tried using and , both plain and enclosed in square brackets, to no effect.

user_12101554 · Answer

If you look at the docs, it formats it the same as moment.js, and if you go to their documentation, you escape parts of the string with [ and ].

To have newline, we have to change the style.

style={{whiteSpace: "pre"}}
format={"M [months]
D HH:mm:ss"}

https://codesandbox.io/s/countdown-antd-4-18-5-forked-soh98

user_9084435 · Answer

Try with single quotes like:

format={"M 'months' D HH:mm:ss"}

How can I include plain text in a date format string?

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