Current date in javascript

Question

How would I get the current date to display in jquery as "Saturday, October 31, 2015"? I can only find how to get the date to display as "dd/mm/yyyy"

• Alex K.: There is no built in Date formatting in jQuery. momentjs.com
• Alexander Elgin: You can use moment.js: momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying
• Maduro: you can also check this stackoverflow.com/questions/1531093/…
• jogx: I am not really sure how to implement moments.js,
• jogx: Would it be impossible for me to learn to do this in PHP if its so easy?

Answer 1

To get 31/10/2015 use this :

// "31/10/2015" and august : 31/08/2015 :
var a=new Date();
alert([("0" + a.getDate()).slice(-2), ("0" + (a.getMonth()+1)).slice(-2), a.getFullYear()].join("/"));
// "31/10/2015" and august : 31/8/2015 :
[a.getDate(), (a.getMonth() + 1), a.getFullYear()].join("/"); 

Example :

function getDate() {
 var a=new Date();
 return [("0" + a.getDate()).slice(-2), ("0" + (a.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2), a.getFullYear()].join("/");
}
document.write(getDate());

• Maduro: She ask for Thursday, October 31, 2015 not 31/09/2015 and the current date is 31/10/2015 =)

Answer 2

You can:

var date = new Date();
var str = ["Sunday", "mon", "tues", "wed", "thurs", "fri", "sat", "sun"][date.getDay()];
str += ", " + ["jan", "feb", "mar", "apr", "may", "june", "jul", "aug", "sep", "oct", "November", "dec"][date.getMonth()];
str += " " + date.getDate();
str += ", " + date.getFullYear();
console.log(str);

Sunday, November 1, 2015

• jogx: Amazing!! beautiful ty Alex

Answer 3

To get Sat Oct 31 2015 use this:

var TodaysDate = new Date().toDateString();

JsFiddle