Code examples for a blog post on using Moment.js
const uglyDate = '29–03–1989';
// parse the ugly date with a specific format
const niceDate = moment(uglyDate, 'DD-MM-YYYY');
// format the date into our nice, custom format
console.log(niceDate.format('ddd MMM Do, YYYY')); // Wed Mar 29th, 1989