getMinutes() 0-9 - How to display two digit numbers?

Question

var date = \"2012-01-18T16:03\";
var date = new Date(date);

console.log(date.getMinutes());
console.log(date.getMinutes().length)

This returns 3.

Answer 1

I suggest:

var minutes = data.getMinutes();
minutes = minutes > 9 ? minutes : '0' + minutes;

it is one function call fewer. It is always good to think about performance. It is short as well;

Answer 2

For two digit minutes use: new Date().toLocaleFormat("%M")

Answer 3

I assume you would need the value as string. You could use the code below. It will always return give you the two digit minutes as string.

var date = new Date(date);
var min = date.getMinutes();

if (min < 10) {
min = '0' + min;
} else {
min = min + '';
}
console.log(min);

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

I usually use this piece of code :

var start = new Date(timestamp),
    startMinutes = start.getMinutes() < 10 ? '0' + start.getMinutes() : start.getMinutes();

It is quite similar to the @ogur accepted answer but does not concatenate an empty string in the case that 0 is not needed. Not sure it is better. Just an other way to do it !

Answer 5

Another short way is to fill the minutes with a leading zero using:

String(date.getMinutes()).padStart(2, "0");

Meaning: Make the string two chars long, if a char is missing then set 0 at this position.

See docs at str.padStart(targetLength, padString)

Answer 6

you should check if it is less than 10... not looking for the length of it , because this is a number and not a string