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 date = "Thu Feb 18 12:25:00 SGT 2016";

date = date.replace("SGT","GMT+0800") // replaces SGT with GMT+0800 because 
singapore time is 8 hrs ahead than GMT timezone

var newdate = new Date(Date.parse(date))

var requiredDate = newdate.toLocaleDateString()