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 just wanted to share a timestamp prototype I made using Pierre's idea. Not enough points to comment :(

// US common date timestamp
Date.prototype.timestamp = function() {
  var yyyy = this.getFullYear().toString();
  var mm = (this.getMonth()+1).toString(); // getMonth() is zero-based
  var dd  = this.getDate().toString();
  var h = this.getHours().toString();
  var m = this.getMinutes().toString();
  var s = this.getSeconds().toString();

  return (mm[1]?mm:"0"+mm[0]) + "/" + (dd[1]?dd:"0"+dd[0]) + "/" + yyyy + " - " + ((h > 12) ? h-12 : h) + ":" + m + ":" + s;
};

d = new Date();

var timestamp = d.timestamp();
// 10/12/2013 - 2:04:19

Answer 2

If you have jQuery UI (needed for the datepicker), this would do the trick:

$.datepicker.formatDate('yy/mm/dd', new Date());

Answer 3

//convert month to 2 digits<p>
var twoDigitMonth = ((fullDate.getMonth().length+1) === 1)? (fullDate.getMonth()+1) : '0' + (fullDate.getMonth()+1);

var currentDate =  fullDate.getFullYear()+ "/" + twoDigitMonth + "/" + fullDate.getDate();
console.log(currentDate);<br>
//2011/05/19

Answer 4

The jQuery plugin page is down. So manually:

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

var now = new Date();
var currentDate = now.getFullYear()+ "/" + strpad00(now.getMonth()+1) + "/" + strpad00(now.getDate());
console.log(currentDate );

Answer 5

console.log($.datepicker.formatDate('yy/mm/dd', new Date()));

Answer 6

Try this....

var d = new Date();
alert(d.getFullYear()+'/'+(d.getMonth()+1)+'/'+d.getDate());

getMonth() return month 0 to 11 so we would like to add 1 for accurate month

Reference by : http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_date.asp