moment().fromNow() returns 'Invalid date'

[OregonianPyro]

Description of the Issue and Steps to Reproduce:
I'm using moment to get the age of a user's account, by using:
moment(user account created date here).fromNow() but it return 'Invalid date'. This worked before but it no longer works. The created date looks something like: 2018-06-07T22:54:07.310Z.
Using moment(date here).format() works fine.
Please include the values of all variables used.
The date I use to format and use fromNow is 2018-06-07T22:54:07.310Z
Environment:
Discord Bot
Examples: Chrome 49 on OSX, Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 7, Node.JS 4.4.4 on Ubuntu 16.0.4
I don't use moment for anything listed above.
Both the browser and the OS are important to us, particularly if you have an unsual environment like an IOT application.

Other information that may be helpful: https://i.imgur.com/4LFsZh3.png

• The time zone setting of the machine the code is running on: PST
• The time and date at which the code was run: 12:20PM, 10/7/18
• Other libraries in use (TypeScript, Immutable.js, etc) None

If you are reporting an issue, please run the following code in the environment you are using and include the output:

console.log( (new Date()).toString())
console.log((new Date()).toLocaleString())
console.log( (new Date()).getTimezoneOffset())
console.log( navigator.userAgent)
console.log(moment.version)

Sun Oct 07 2018 12:29:05 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
2018-10-7 12:29:05
420
2.22.2
Ensure your issue is isolated to moment. Issues involving third party tools will be closed unless submitted by the tool's author/maintainer.

[ashsearle]

How do you run your Discord Bot?

You said: "This worked before but it no longer works"
Has anything changed since it worked - e.g. have you updated the environment your discord bot runs on? Has the format of 'user account created date' changed?

Are you able to modify your discord bot code to show the output of the below (specifically using hard-coded strings):

console.log('moment.format:', moment("2018-06-07T22:54:07.310Z").format());
console.log('moment.fromNow:', moment("2018-06-07T22:54:07.310Z").fromNow());

[OregonianPyro]

It was working before then just stopped. No code changed. No envirnoment changed with the bot. The way the dates are being parsed seem the same too.

And here's what the console outputted;

moment.format: 2018-06-07T15:54:07-07:00
moment.fromNow: Invalid date

and here's how I used it (this.client.moment is how I have moment defined):

 console.log('moment.format:', this.client.moment("2018-06-07T22:54:07.310Z").format());
console.log('moment.fromNow:', this.client.moment("2018-06-07T22:54:07.310Z").fromNow());

Not sure if I mentioned it or not, but here are the current versions I'm using:
"moment": "^2.22.2",
"moment-duration-format": "^2.2.2"
and I'm on v8.9.2 of node

[manofspirit]

I'm having similar issue with Angular 6 (ionic based app) and moment 2.22.2 returns invalid date for something as simple as this.
moment(new Date()).fromNow();
please advise.

[jamesastound]

Still happening in 2.23.0

time = moment('2017-08-08T18:29:07.000Z')
time.isValid() // true
time.toNow() // Invalid date
time.fromNow() // Invalid date

[marwahaha]

Thanks for opening this request
Hi! Thanks for filing this issue! Unfortunately, I can't reproduce this. Could you provide any other information?

It helps if you run these lines on your machines:

console.log( (new Date()).toString())
console.log((new Date()).toLocaleString())
console.log( (new Date()).getTimezoneOffset())
console.log( navigator.userAgent)
console.log(moment.version)

[jamesastound]

Thanks for the reply. I am using NodeJS, so there is not a navigator environment.

new Date()).toString() Thu Jan 17 2019 06:53:11 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)
new Date()).toLocaleString(): 1/17/2019, 6:53:11 AM
new Date()).getTimezoneOffset(): 360
moment.version: 2.23.0
NodeJS is v11.6.0

I've been doing some testing and the conflict is an Object.prototype constructor.

Object.prototype.test = function () {
    return test
}

const moment = require('moment');

const time = moment('2017-08-08T18:29:07.000Z')
console.log(time.isValid()) // true
console.log(time.toNow()) // Invalid date
console.log(time.fromNow()) // Invalid date

[XenHat]

I am also affected by this.
At first, I believed that using an incomplete unix timestamp (how the data is provided to me) in the constructor was the cause, but upon testing the example code in MomentJS' documentation, I found that any call to fromNow() returned Invalid Date.

[ramsy-leftclick]

Same problem here.

toString Tue Jan 07 2020 10:20:09 GMT+0100 (Central European Standard Time)
toLocaleString 1/7/2020, 10:20:09 AM
getTimezoneOffset -60
navigator.userAgent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:71.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/71.0
moment.version 2.24.0

[Pranit-Harekar]

Same here on "moment": "^2.24.0",. It works fine when run on browser but fails in nodejs. Any workaround until fixed? @marwahaha

[ashsearle]

It's a hack, but you could change the Object.prototype extensions so they're not enumerable:

console.log(moment().fromNow()); // 'a few seconds ago'
Object.prototype.randomExtension = true;
console.log(moment().fromNow()); // 'Invalid date'

Object.keys(Object.prototype).forEach(function(extension) {
  Object.defineProperty(Object.prototype, extension, { enumerable: false });
});

console.log(moment().fromNow()); // 'a few seconds ago'