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Angular's Pipe helpers allows you to pass data through a formatter for easy content formatting in your Angular templates. The DatePipe helper is a built-in utility for formatting generic date objects into human-readable formats. The 'shortdate' property passed along tells Angular that we want to format the date into the shortdate format style, that is, MM/DD/YYYY for en-US locales.

There are many other formats available for date that you can find in the following official DatePipe documentation: https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/api/common/index/DatePipe-pipe.html

If Angular detects a LOCALE_ID different than en-US, it will transform the date format into a locale appropriate format for us. For example, for en-GB, it reorders ...