--- schema_version: "1" id: 2a41ef731a5982fc5a164ee2f181afd9c6274e995145a50edee7ef8456ed20c8 title: AuraLocalizationService collection: developer version: current locale: en-us portal_url: https://docs.salesforce.com/developer/current/en-us/platform/aura-platform/guides/aura/ref-jsapi/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice.md canonical_url: https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice.html source_site: developer.salesforce.com content_type: documentation content_hash: 02493fce512a0ae2e0e8f7ce0ca9c5c778760267a813803bce2077db4bbba837 products: - Lightning Aura Components Developer Guide - Platform Developer Content --- # AuraLocalizationService `AuraLocalizationService` provides methods for formatting and localizing dates. Use `$A.localizationService` to use the methods in `AuraLocalizationService`. ## Methods - **[UTCToWallTime()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-utctowalltime.md)** Converts a datetime from UTC to a specified timezone. - **[WallTimeToUTC](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-walltimetoutc.md)** Converts a datetime from a specified timezone to UTC. - **[displayDuration()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-displayduration.md)** Displays a length of time. - **[displayDurationInDays()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-displaydurationindays.md)** Displays a length of time in days. - **[displayDurationInHours()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-displaydurationinhours.md)** Displays a length of time in hours. - **[displayDurationInMilliseconds()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-displaydurationinmilliseconds.md)** Displays a length of time in milliseconds. - **[displayDurationInMinutes()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-displaydurationinminutes.md)** Displays a length of time in minutes. - **[displayDurationInMonths()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-displaydurationinmonths.md)** Displays a length of time in months. - **[displayDurationInSeconds()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-displaydurationinseconds.md)** Displays a length of time in seconds. - **[duration()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-duration.md)** Returns an object representing a length of time. - **[endOf()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-endof.md)** Returns a date that is the end of a unit of time for the given date. - **[formatCurrency()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-formatcurrency.md)** Returns a currency number based on the default currency format. - **[formatDate()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-formatdate.md)** Returns a formatted date. - **[formatDateTime()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-formatdatetime.md)** Returns a formatted date time. - **[formatDateTimeUTC()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-formatdatetimeutc.md)** Returns a formatted date time in UTC. - **[formatDateUTC()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-formatdateutc.md)** Returns a formatted date in UTC. - **[formatNumber()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-formatnumber.md)** Returns a formatted number with the default number format. - **[formatPercent()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-formatpercent.md)** Returns a formatted percentage number based on the default percentage format. - **[formatTime()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-formattime.md)** Returns a formatted time. - **[formatTimeUTC()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-formattimeutc.md)** Returns a formatted time in UTC. - **[getDateStringBasedOnTimezone](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-getdatestringbasedontimezone.md)** Gets a date string based on a time zone. - **[getDaysInDuration()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-getdaysinduration.md)** Returns the number of days in a duration. - **[getDefaultCurrencyFormat()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-getdefaultcurrencyformat.md)** Returns the default currency format. - **[getDefaultNumberFormat()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-getdefaultnumberformat.md)** Returns the default `NumberFormat` object. - **[getDefaultPercentFormat()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-getdefaultpercentformat.md)** Returns the default percentage format. - **[getHoursInDuration()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-gethoursinduration.md)** Returns a length of time in hours. - **[getLocalizedDateTimeLabels()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-getlocalizeddatetimelabels.md)** Deprecated. Do not use. Returns date time labels, such as month name, weekday name. - **[getMillisecondsInDuration()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-getmillisecondsinduration.md)** Returns the number of milliseconds in a duration. - **[getMinutesInDuration()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-getminutesinduration.md)** Returns the number of minutes in a duration. - **[getMonthsInDuration()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-getmonthsinduration.md)** Returns the number of months in a duration. - **[getNumberFormat()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-getnumberformat.md)** Returns a `NumberFormat` object. - **[getSecondsInDuration()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-getsecondsinduration.md)** Returns the number of seconds in a duration. - **[getToday](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-gettoday.md)** Gets today’s date based on a time zone. - **[getYearsInDuration()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-getyearsinduration.md)** Returns the number of years in a duration. - **[isAfter()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-isafter.md)** Checks if `date1` is after `date2`. - **[isBefore()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-isbefore.md)** Checks if `date1` is before `date2`. - **[isBetween()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-isbetween.md)** Checks if `date` is between `fromDate` and `toDate`, where the match is inclusive. - **[isPeriodTimeView()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-isperiodtimeview.md)** Deprecated. Do not use. Checks if a datetime pattern string uses a 24-hour or 12-hour time view. - **[isSame()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-issame.md)** Checks if `date1` is the same as `date2`. - **[parseDateTime()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-parsedatetime.md)** Parses a string and returns a JavaScript Date. - **[parseDateTimeISO8601()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-parsedatetimeiso8601.md)** Parses a date time string in an ISO-8601 format and returns a JavaScript Date. - **[parseDateTimeUTC()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-parsedatetimeutc.md)** Parses a string and returns a JavaScript Date. - **[startOf()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-startof.md)** Returns a date that is the start of a unit of time for the given date. - **[toISOString()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-toisostring.md)** Deprecated. Use `Date.toISOString()` instead. - **[translateFromLocalizedDigits()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-translatefromlocalizeddigits.md)** Translate the localized digit string to a string with Arabic digits, if there is any. - **[translateFromOtherCalendar()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-translatefromothercalendar.md)** Translates the input date from another calendar system (for example, the Buddhist calendar) to the Gregorian calendar based on the locale. - **[translateToLocalizedDigits()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-translatetolocalizeddigits.md)** Translate the input string to a string with localized digits, if there is any. - **[translateToOtherCalendar()](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/guide/ref-jsapi-auralocalizationservice-translatetoothercalendar.md)** Translates the input date to a date in another calendar system (for example, the Buddhist calendar) based on the locale. **See Also** - [Formatting Dates in JavaScript](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/aura-platform/js-cb/js-cb-format-dates.md)