How to get current date in jquery?

Question

I want to know how to use the Date() function in jQuery to get the current date in a yyyy/mm/dd format.

Answer 1

I know I am Late But This Is All You Need

var date = (new Date()).toISOString().split('T')[0];

toISOString() use built function of javascript.

cd = (new Date()).toISOString().split('T')[0];
console.log(cd);
alert(cd);

Answer 2

FYI - getDay() will give you the day of the week... ie: if today is Thursday, it will return the number 4 (being the 4th day of the week).

To get a proper day of the month, use getDate().

My example below... (also a string padding function to give a leading 0 on single time elements. (eg: 10:4:34 => 10:04:35)

function strpad00(s)
{
    s = s + '';
    if (s.length === 1) s = '0'+s;
    return s;
}

var currentdate = new Date();
var datetime = currentdate.getDate() 
    + "/" + strpad00((currentdate.getMonth()+1)) 
    + "/" + currentdate.getFullYear() 
    + " @ " 
    + currentdate.getHours() + ":" 
    + strpad00(currentdate.getMinutes()) + ":" 
    + strpad00(currentdate.getSeconds());

Example output: 31/12/2013 @ 10:07:49
If using getDay(), the output would be 4/12/2013 @ 10:07:49

Answer 3

You can add an extension method to javascript.

Date.prototype.today = function () {
    return ((this.getDate() < 10) ? "0" : "") + this.getDate() + "/" + (((this.getMonth() + 1) < 10) ? "0" : "") + (this.getMonth() + 1) + "/" + this.getFullYear();
}

Answer 4

you can use this code:

var nowDate     = new Date();
var nowDay      = ((nowDate.getDate().toString().length) == 1) ? '0'+(nowDate.getDate()) : (nowDate.getDate());
var nowMonth    = ((nowDate.getMonth().toString().length) == 1) ? '0'+(nowDate.getMonth()+1) : (nowDate.getMonth()+1);
var nowYear     = nowDate.getFullYear();
var formatDate  = nowDay + "." + nowMonth + "." + nowYear;

you can find a working demo here

Answer 5

This is what I came up with using only jQuery. It's just a matter of putting the pieces together.

        //Gather date information from local system
        var ThisMonth = new Date().getMonth() + 1;
        var ThisDay = new Date().getDate();
        var ThisYear = new Date().getFullYear();
        var ThisDate = ThisMonth.toString() + "/" + ThisDay.toString() + "/" + ThisYear.toString();

        //Gather time information from local system
        var ThisHour = new Date().getHours();
        var ThisMinute = new Date().getMinutes();
        var ThisTime = ThisHour.toString() + ":" + ThisMinute.toString();

        //Concatenate date and time for date-time stamp
        var ThisDateTime = ThisDate  + " " + ThisTime;

Answer 6

This will give you current date string

var today = new Date().toISOString().split('T')[0];