How to get year/month/day from a date object?

Question

alert(dateObj) gives Wed Dec 30 2009 00:00:00 GMT+0800

How to get date in format 2009/12/30?

Answer 1

With the accepted answer, January 1st would be displayed like this: 2017/1/1.

If you prefer 2017/01/01, you can use:

var dt = new Date();
var date = dt.getFullYear() + '/' + (((dt.getMonth() + 1) < 10) ? '0' : '') + (dt.getMonth() + 1) + '/' + ((dt.getDate() < 10) ? '0' : '') + dt.getDate();

Answer 2

ES2018 introduced regex capture groups which you can use to catch day, month and year:

const REGEX = /(?<year>[0-9]{4})-(?<month>[0-9]{2})-(?<day>[0-9]{2});
const results = REGEX.exec('2018-07-12');
console.log(results.groups.year);
console.log(results.groups.month);
console.log(results.groups.day);

Advantage of this approach is possiblity to catch day, month, year for non-standard string date formats.

Ref. https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/es9-javascripts-state-of-art-in-2018-9a350643f29c/

Answer 3

Why not using the method toISOString() with slice or simply toLocaleDateString()?

Check here:

const d = new Date(); // today, now

console.log(d.toISOString().slice(0, 10)) // YYYY-MM-DD

console.log(d.toLocaleDateString('en-US')); // M/D/YYYY
console.log(d.toLocaleDateString('de-DE')); // D.M.YYYY
console.log(d.toLocaleDateString('pt-PT')); // DD/MM/YYYY

Answer 4

Here is a cleaner way getting Year/Month/Day with template literals:

var date = new Date();
var formattedDate = `${date.getFullYear()}/${(date.getMonth() + 1)}/${date.getDate()}`;
console.log(formattedDate);

Answer 5

You can simply use This one line code to get date in year-month-date format

var date = new Date().getFullYear() + "-" + new Date().getMonth() + 1 + "-" + new Date().getDate();

Answer 6

var dateObj = new Date();
var month = dateObj.getUTCMonth() + 1; //months from 1-12
var day = dateObj.getUTCDate();
var year = dateObj.getUTCFullYear();

newdate = year + "/" + month + "/" + day;

or you can set new date and give the above values