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

let dateObj = new Date();

let myDate = (dateObj.getUTCFullYear()) + "/" + (dateObj.getMonth() + 1)+ "/" + (dateObj.getUTCDate());

For reference you can see the below details

new Date().getDate()          // Return the day as a number (1-31)
new Date().getDay()           // Return the weekday as a number (0-6)
new Date().getFullYear()      // Return the four digit year (yyyy)
new Date().getHours()         // Return the hour (0-23)
new Date().getMilliseconds()  // Return the milliseconds (0-999)
new Date().getMinutes()       // Return the minutes (0-59)
new Date().getMonth()         // Return the month (0-11)
new Date().getSeconds()       // Return the seconds (0-59)
new Date().getTime()          // Return the time (milliseconds since January 1, 1970)

let dateObj = new Date();

let myDate = (dateObj.getUTCFullYear()) + "/" + (dateObj.getMonth() + 1)+ "/" + (dateObj.getUTCDate());

console.log(myDate)

// Return the minutes (0-59) new Date().getMonth() // Return the month (0-11) new Date().getSeconds() // Return the seconds (0-59) new Date().getTime() // Return the time (milliseconds since January 1, 1970)

Answer 2

Use the Date get methods.

http://www.tizag.com/javascriptT/javascriptdate.php

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/javascript/article.php/3470841

var dateobj= new Date() ;
var month = dateobj.getMonth() + 1;
var day = dateobj.getDate() ;
var year = dateobj.getFullYear();

Answer 3

I would suggest you to use Moment.js http://momentjs.com/

Then you can do:

moment(new Date()).format("YYYY/MM/DD");

Note: you don't actualy need to add new Date() if you want the current TimeDate, I only added it as a reference that you can pass a date object to it. for the current TimeDate this also works:

moment().format("YYYY/MM/DD");

Answer 4

Nice formatting add-in: http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/date-time-format.

With that you could write:

var now = new Date();
now.format("yyyy/mm/dd");

Answer 5

info

If a 2 digit month and date is desired (2016/01/01 vs 2016/1/1)

code

var dateObj = new Date();
var month = ('0' + (dateObj.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2);
var date = ('0' + dateObj.getDate()).slice(-2);
var year = dateObj.getFullYear();
var shortDate = year + '/' + month + '/' + date;
alert(shortDate);

output

2016/10/06

fiddle

https://jsfiddle.net/Hastig/1xuu7z7h/

credit

More info from and credit to this answer

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To learn more about .slice the try it yourself editor at w3schools helped me understand better how to use it.

Answer 6

new Date().toISOString()
"2016-02-18T23:59:48.039Z"
new Date().toISOString().split('T')[0];
"2016-02-18"
new Date().toISOString().replace('-', '/').split('T')[0].replace('-', '/');
"2016/02/18"

new Date().toLocaleString().split(',')[0]
"2/18/2016"