Does NodeJS/JavaScript uses the server date?
I have a script in my NodeJS where I format the date before inserting it in the MySQL database.
const today = new Date();
const formattedDate = (date) => {
var d = new Date(date),
month = '' + (d.getMonth() + 1),
day = '' + d.getDate(),
year = d.getFullYear();
if (month.length < 2)
month = '0' + month;
if (day.length < 2)
day = '0' + day;
return [year, month, day].join('-');
}
Then I run whenever I want to insert it: '${formattedDate(today)}'
However, I notice it is saving the wrong date. Not today's date. Does NodeJS get the server date?
Your today variable is a constant assigned once to today's date when the program is first run (or actually when this file is imported). So if your problem is that you don't get today's date several days after starting the program, this is why. Just call new Date() every time you need today's date, or make today into a function.
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Everything works fine except for 1 date. This is my function.
export function formatDate(date) {
console.log(new Date(date), date);
let d = new Date(date),
month = '' + (d.getMonth() + 1),
day = '' + d.getUTCDate(),
year = d.getFullYear();
if (month.length < 2) month = '0' + month;
if (day.length < 2) day = '0' + day;
return [month, day, year].join('/');
}
I tried to log it in console and this is the result.
I have underlined the wrong date. It says may 1 eventhough its april 30. This is probably caused by the timezone. Does it mean that new Date().getMonth() can't be trusted?
Your dates are UTC (indicated by the Z at the end of the time string), but you are outputting them in your local timezone (Philippine Standard Time) which is GMT+0800, hence the difference in outputs (which you'll notice is exactly 8 hours). This is caused by your console.log
calling Date.toString() on the result of new Date(date), which outputs the datetime according to the client timezone.
If you want to get the same result as your SQL date, use Date.toUTCString() instead:
let d = new Date('2021-04-30T21:30:15.697Z')
console.log(d.toString())
console.log(d.toUTCString())
Similarly, you need to use Date.getUTCMonth() and Date.getUTCFullYear() to get the correct month from the SQL date:
let d = new Date('2021-04-30T21:30:15.697Z')
console.log(d.getMonth())
console.log(d.getUTCMonth())
I start by getting the date of the beginning of month:
var date = new Date();
var firstDay = new Date(date.getFullYear(), date.getMonth(), 1);
Then I convert it to ISO:
firstDay = firstDay.toISOString();
Why did I get 2019-05-31 as the first day instead of 2019-06-01?
You could use a simple regex to format the string using replace:
/(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2}).+/
// Set the inital date to a UTC date
var date = new Date(new Date().toLocaleString("en-US", {timeZone: "UTC"}))
// Update the day without affecting the month/day when using toISOString()
date.setDate(1)
// Format the date
let formatted = date.toISOString().replace(/(\d{4})-(\d{2})-(\d{2}).+/, '$3-$2-$1')
console.log(formatted)
The default javascript date uses your local timezone, by converting it to something else you can end up with a different date.
You can do it
var firstDay = new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 8) + '01';
console.log(firstDay);
The date object in javascript can be somewhat tricky. When you create a date, it is created in your local timezone, but toISOString() gets the date according to UTC. The following should convert the date to ISO but keep it in your own time zone.
var date = new Date();
var firstDay = new Date(date.getFullYear(), date.getMonth(), 1);
var day = 0;
if (firstDay.getDate() < 10) {
day = '0' + firstDay.getDate();
}
var month = 0;
if ((firstDay.getMonth() + 1) < 10) {
//months are zero indexed, so we have to add 1
month = '0' + (firstDay.getMonth() + 1);
}
firstDay = firstDay.getFullYear() + '-' + month + '-' + day;
console.log(firstDay);
I am trying to put together a mostly automated form. I have the get current date fine but I am having problems collecting information from a user enter date to place it in another part of the form as well + 1 year. I.E. D.O.B = 08/06/2016 farther down the form expires 08/06/2017. I can make the current date enter automatically but when i try and get the date entered from the user nothing fills the lower date. I tried getting the date using document.getElementById('dob')
function datePone()
{
var date = new Date();
var day = date.getDate(document.getElementById('dob'))
var month = date.getMonth(document.getElementById('dob')) + 1;
var year = date.getFullYear(document.getElementById('dob')) + 1;
if (month < 10) month = "0" + month;
if (day < 10) day = "0" + day;
var oneYear = year + "-" + month + "-" + day;
document.getElementById("dateOneYear").value = oneYear;
}
I've tried using set date or making a new var using document.getElementById('dob') but nothing i have tried has worked so far.
Since "dob" is an input field, to the get the entered data you need to use value property, so try
document.getElementById('dob').value
Also I suggest using momentjs library to manipulate with dates.
Where you have:
var day = date.getDate(document.getElementById('dob'))
the getDate method does not take any arguments, so they are ignored and the above is equivalent to:
var day = date.getDate()
You don't specify what format you're using for the string, "08/06/2016" is ambiguous. Does it represent 8 June or August 6?
You should not use the Date constructor or Date.parse to parse date strings, write your own small function or use a library. Also, adding one year to a date like 29 Feb 2016 will end up on 1 March 2017, so you need to apply a rule to accept that or change it to 28 Feb 2017.
Anyhow, assuming the input is in the format dd/mm/yyyy and you want the output date in the format yyyy-mm-dd, you can use a library or small functions like the following:
// Parse string in d/m/y format
// If invalid, return invalid Date
function parseDMY(s){
var b = s.split(/\D/);
var d = new Date(b[2], --b[1], b[0]);
return d && d.getMonth() == b[1]? d : new Date(NaN);
}
// Return date string in yyyy-mm-dd format
function toISODate(d) {
return d.getFullYear() + '-' +
('0' + (d.getMonth()+1)).slice(-2) + '-' +
('0' + d.getDate()).slice(-2);
}
// Parse string to Date
var d = parseDMY('06/08/2016');
// Add one year
d.setFullYear(d.getFullYear() + 1);
console.log(toISODate(d));
Using a library like fecha.js, you'd parse the string using:
var d = fecha.parse('06/08/2016','DD/MM/YYYY');
and format the output:
fecha.format(d, 'YYYY-MM-DD')
I have an API result giving out timestamp like this 1447804800000. How do I convert this to a readable format using Javascript/jQuery?
You can convert this to a readable date using new Date() method
if you have a specific date stamp, you can get the corresponding date time format by the following method
var date = new Date(timeStamp);
in your case
var date = new Date(1447804800000);
this will return
Wed Nov 18 2015 05:30:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)
Call This function and pass your date :
JS :
function getDateFormat(date) {
var d = new Date(date),
month = '' + (d.getMonth() + 1),
day = '' + d.getDate(),
year = d.getFullYear();
if (month.length < 2)
month = '0' + month;
if (day.length < 2)
day = '0' + day;
var date = new Date();
date.toLocaleDateString();
return [day, month, year].join('-');
}
;
In my case, the REST API returned timestamp with decimal. Below code snippet example worked for me.
var ts= 1551246342.000100; // say this is the format for decimal timestamp.
var dt = new Date(ts * 1000);
alert(dt.toLocaleString()); // 2/27/2019, 12:45:42 AM this for displayed
Good afternoon in my timezone.
I want to compare two dates , one of them is inserted by the user and the other is the present day. Snippet of code :
var dateString = "2012-01-03"
var date = new Date(dateString);
date < new Date() ? true : false;
This returns true, i think under the hood both Date objects are transformed to milliseconds and then compared , and if it is this way the "Today" object is bigger because of the hours and minutes.So what i want to do is compare dates just by the day month and year.What is the best approach ? Create a new Date object and then reset the hours minutes and milliseconds to zero before the comparison? Or extract the day the month and year from both dates object and make the comparison ? Is there any better approach ?
Thanks in advance
With the best regards.
Happy new year
Set the time portion of your created date to zeros.
var d = new Date();
d.setHours(0,0,0,0);
Since it's in yyyy-mm-dd format, you can just build the current yyyy-mm-dd from date object and do a regular string comparison:
var currentDate = new Date();
var year = currentDate.getFullYear();
var month = currentDate.getMonth()+1;
if (month < 10) month = "0" + month;
var day = currentDate.getDate();
if (day < 10) day = "0" + day;
currentDate = year + "-" + month + "-" + day;
var dateString = "2012-01-03"
var compareDates = dateString < currentDate ? true : false;
document.write(compareDates);
A production-ready example based on top of Accepted Answer
Add the following function to your Javascript
Date.prototype.removeTimeFromDate = function () {
var newDate = new Date(this);
newDate.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0);
return newDate;
}
Invoke it whenever you wish to compare
firstDate.removeTimeFromDate() < secondDate.removeTimeFromDate()