Format the following date into YYYY-mm-dd in JS

Question

How would I go about converting following date:

Thu Feb 18 12:25:00 SGT 2016

into a format like \'2016-02-18\'?

I know,

1. That, using a new

Answer 1

var input="Thu Feb 18 12:25:00 SGT 2016";
  
var ar=input.split(" ");

  var months = {"Jan":"01", "Feb":"02", "Mar":"03", "Apr":"04", "May":"05", "Jun":"06", "Jul":"07", "Aug":"08", "Sep":"09", "Oct":"10", "Nov":"11", "Dec":"12"};

console.log(ar[ar.length-1]+"-"+months[ar[1]]+"-"+ar[2]);

  

Try this code no date parsing required. Please check on console for result.