Javascript get date in format [duplicate]

Answer 1

Unfortunately there is no better way, but instead of reinventing the wheel, you could use a library to deal with parsing and formatting dates: Datejs

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Or, if you find format specifiers ugly and hard to decipher, here's a concise formatting implementation that allows you to use human-readable format specifiers (namely, the Date instance getters themselves):

date.format("{Month:2}-{Date:2}-{FullYear}"); // mm-dd-yyyy

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Answer 2

var today = new Date();

var strDate = 'Y-m-d'
  .replace('Y', today.getFullYear())
  .replace('m', today.getMonth()+1)
  .replace('d', today.getDate());

Answer 3

function dateNow(splinter){
  var set = new Date(); 
  var getDate = set.getDate().toString();
  if (getDate.length == 1){ //example if 1 change to 01
   getDate = "0"+getDate;
  }
  var getMonth = (set.getMonth()+1).toString();
  if (getMonth.length == 1){
   getMonth = "0"+getMonth;
  }
  var getYear = set.getFullYear().toString();
  var dateNow = getMonth +splinter+ getDate +splinter+ getYear; //today
  return dateNow;
}

format this function is mm dd yyyy and the dividing you can choice and replace if you want... for example dateNow("/") you will get 12/12/2014

Answer 4

(new Date()).format("MM-dd-yyyy")

N.B. month is "MM" not "mm"

Answer 5

date.js is what you need. For example, snippet below is to convert a date to string as Java style

new Date().toString('M/d/yyyy')

Answer 6

There is nothing built in, but consider using this if you are already using jQuery (and if not, then you should consider that as well!)

• http://plugins.jquery.com/project/jquery-dateFormat