nodejs-dateformat: Steven Levithan's excellent dateFormat() function for Node.js, which provides a simple way to format dates and times according to a user-specified mask.

Review Request:[[BR]]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=977118

(I've actually also already packaged the original project as "dateformat" in Fedora.)

Life would be simple if nodejs-dateformat was just a repackaging of the original project for Node.js (and I could subsequently just symlink the file), but the authors have made enough changes that it's really a fork.

Original project (~120 lines):[[BR]]
http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/date-time-format [[BR]]
http://stevenlevithan.com/assets/misc/date.format.js

Forked project (~180 lines):[[BR]]
https://github.com/felixge/node-dateformat [[BR]]
https://raw.github.com/felixge/node-dateformat/4c49d1a0582c/lib/dateformat.js

This is the largest block of new code, though there are also a few other scattered changes:[[BR]]
https://github.com/felixge/node-dateformat/blob/master/lib/dateformat.js#L25-61

Full diff from original:[[BR]]
http://jamielinux.fedorapeople.org/dateformat.diff

The Readme.md lists the following changes:

• Removed the Date.prototype.format method. Sorry folks, but extending
  native prototypes is for suckers.
• Added a module.exports = dateFormat; statement at the bottom
• Added the placeholder N to get the ISO 8601 numeric representation of
  the day of the week

I don't think it would be possible to use the original as a drop-in replacement. There are also already >100 other Node modules that depend on nodejs-dateformat and expect the new behaviour. I've contacted the original author by email to ask whether he would consider integrating the changes, and waiting for a reply. (NB: The original has not seen any changes in 6 years.)

I would therefore like to request a bundling exception for nodejs-dateformat and would appreciate any advice.