MomentJS library
Moment is a library with handy methods for date and time manipulations. By making use of the moment object in scripts, you can use the MomentJS library.
Extensive documentation can be found on https://momentjs.com/
Setting the locale
Default locale is US but can be changed by entering the following instruction:
moment.locale('nl');
An example:
var date = '2017-09-10'
var jsDate = moment(date);
console.log(jsDate.format());
This will show 2017-09-10T00:00:00+00:00 in the logs.