How do I get the current date in JavaScript?

Answer 1

If by "current date" you are thinking about "today", then this trick may work for you:

> new Date(3600000*Math.floor(Date.now()/3600000))
2020-05-07T07:00:00.000Z

This way you are getting today Date instance with time 0:00:00.

The principle of operation is very simple: we take the current timestamp and divide it for 1 day expressed in milliseconds. We will get a fraction. By using Math.floor, we get rid of the fraction, so we get an integer. Now if we multiply it back by one day (again - in milliseconds), we get a date timestamp with the time exactly at the beginning of the day.

> now = Date.now()
1588837459929
> daysInMs = now/3600000
441343.73886916664
> justDays = Math.floor(daysInMs)
441343
> today = justDays*3600000
1588834800000
> new Date(today)
2020-05-07T07:00:00.000Z

Clean and simple.

Answer 2

var utc = new Date().toJSON().slice(0,10).replace(/-/g,'/');
document.write(utc);

Use the replace option if you're going to reuse the utc variable, such as new Date(utc), as Firefox and Safari don't recognize a date with dashes.

Answer 3

The Shortest Answer is: new Date().toJSON().slice(0,10)

Answer 4

If you are using jQuery. Try this one liner :

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

Here is the convention for formatting the date

• d - day of month (no leading zero)
• dd - day of month (two digit)
• o - day of the year (no leading zeros)
• oo - day of the year (three digit)
• D - day name short
• DD - day name long
• m - month of year (no leading zero)
• mm - month of year (two digit)
• M - month name short
• MM - month name long
• y - year (two digit)
• yy - year (four digit)

Here is the reference for jQuery datepicker

Answer 5

You can use moment.js: http://momentjs.com/

var m = moment().format("DD/MM/YYYY");

document.write(m);

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.14.1/moment.min.js"></script>

Answer 6

This is good to get formatted date

let date = new Date().toLocaleDateString("en", {year:"numeric", day:"2-digit", month:"2-digit"});
console.log(date);