Javascript get date in format [duplicate]

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I want to get today's date in the format of mm-dd-yyyy

I am using var currentDate = new Date(); document.write(currentDate);

I can't figure out how to format it.

I saw the examples var currentTime = new Date(YY, mm, dd); and currentTime.format("mm/dd/YY");

Both of which don't work

I finally got a properly formatted date using

var today = new Date();
var dd = today.getDate();
var mm = today.getMonth()+1;//January is 0!`
var yyyy = today.getFullYear();
if(dd<10){dd='0'+dd}
if(mm<10){mm='0'+mm}
var today = mm+'/'+dd+'/'+yyyy;
document.write(today);'`

This seems very complex for such a simple task.

Is there a better way to get today's date in dd/mm/yyyy?

• Nav: I'd do it manually var d = new Date(); var s = new String(); s = (d.getHours()+"-"+d.getMinutes()+"-"+d.getSeconds()+" "+d.getDate()+"-"+d.getMonth()+"-"+d.getFullYear()).toString();. Reference: w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_date.asp

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

<plug class="shameless">

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

</plug>

• Elliot Bonneville: Nice library, came in handy.
• g5thomas: Another useful javascript library is momentjs. momentjs.com You can format the date as follow. moment().format('MM-DD-YYYY')

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

Simple answer is no. Thats the only way to do it that I know of. You can probably wrap into a function that you can reuse many times.

• Samuel Meddows: thought that may be the case. Thanks mate

Answer 4

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 5

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 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

Answer 7

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

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

• Suever: Your description is not clear. Also, there are a lot of really good answers to this question already. Does your answer contribute anything? If so, please elaborate in your answer.

Answer 8

function appendZeros(value,digits){
 var c= 1;
 initValue = value;
 for(i=0;i<digits-1;i++){
 c = c*10;
 if( initValue < c ){
 value = '0' + value;
 }
 }
 return value;
}

• Matt Murphy: Perhaps this was meant for another question?