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How do I format a date in JavaScript?
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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?
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>
var today = new Date();
var strDate = 'Y-m-d'
.replace('Y', today.getFullYear())
.replace('m', today.getMonth()+1)
.replace('d', today.getDate());
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.
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')
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
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
(new Date()).format("MM-dd-yyyy")
N.B. month is "MM" not "mm"
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;
}
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Convert dd-mm-yyyy string to date
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I have a date in format dd/mm/yyyy and when I try to use getMonth() I get the dd field.
For example if I have "01/12/2019" it will take 01 as month instead of 12. Is there a way to get the month from this format?
This is my code:
var beginDate = document.getElementById("beginDate").value;
var month = new Date(beginDate).getMonth();
inside beginDate there's "01/10/2019" (October 1st 2019)
It's better to use any external libraries like momentjs or datejs. Try this it may solve your problem now.
const date = "01/12/2019";
const split = date.split('/');
console.log('day', split[0])
console.log('month', split[1])
console.log('year', split[2])
var date = moment('01/12/2019', 'DD/MM/YYYY');
console.log(date.month()+1);
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.10.3/moment.min.js"></script>
You can use something like Moment.js
const beginDate = "22/05/2019"
const date = moment(beginDate, 'DD/MM/YYYY');
const month = date.format('M');
console.log(month)
//05
Make it easy.
You don't need external libraries:
var beginDate = "01/10/2019";
var timeZone = 'your time zone'; //en-GB etc...
var month = new Date(beginDate).toLocaleString(timeZone , {month: "2-digit"}); //month = 10
I don't think that you need some external library to do this task. You should use javascript date object to get it done easily, getMonth() returns month indexed from 0 to 11. Prefer javascript always instead of unnecessarily importing external js files for libraries
var beginDate = document.getElementById("beginDate").value;
let reg = /(\d\d)\/(\d\d)\/(\d+)/gi;
const[date,mon,year] = reg.exec(beginDate).splice(1);
month = new Date(year,mon-1,date).getMonth(); // months are indexed from 0 to 11 for jan to dec
console.log(month); // 0 for jan and 11 for dec
Month in javascript is 0 indexed that mean 0 represent January, So you need to add 1 to get the month correctly
function getMonth(dt) {
let splitDt = dt.split('/');
return new Date(`${splitDt[2]}-${splitDt[1]}-${splitDt[0]}`).getMonth() + 1;
}
console.log(getMonth("01/10/2019"))
1st oct
You can get months using getMonth() as shown below, But here 0=January, 1=February etc.
var date = "05/12/2019"
var d = new Date(date);
var n = d.getMonth();
console.log(n)
I was trying to find the difference between two days, I'm getting NaN.
function formatDate(oldFormat,duration,timestamp){
var formattedDate = Utilities.formatDate(oldFormat, "IST","yyyy,MM,dd");
Logger.log(timestamp);
var newDate=new Date(timestamp*1000);
Logger.log(newDate);
newDate=Utilities.formatDate(newDate,"IST","yyyy,MM,dd");
Logger.log(formattedDate);
Logger.log(newDate);
var date1=new Date(formattedDate).getTime();
Logger.log(date1)
var date2=new Date(newDate).getTime();
Logger.log(date2)
var diff=daydiff(date2,date1);
Logger.log(diff); }
function daydiff(first, second) {
return (second-first)/(1000*60*60*24);}
How to find the difference between two date in days? I've date in this format :
date 1 : 2015,05,12
date 2: 2015,05,28
There is no point to use Utilities.formatDate() as it is meant to convert a normal date in to any format, not the other way round.
Also not sure what (oldFormat,duration,timestamp) stand for. You do not use duration in your script, and both dates you showed seem to be the same format.
If you are simply trying to find the difference between two dates, try this:
function formatDate(date1,date2){
date1 = new Date(fixDate(date1));
date2 = new Date(fixDate(date2));
var diff = (date2-date1)/(1000*60*60*24);
return(diff);
}
function fixDate(date){
var collector = date;
if (collector.match(",")!=null){
collector = collector.split(",");
var myString = [collector[1], collector[2], collector[0]].join("/");
return myString
}
}
I have the following code which I get from parameters in the URL.
This is what I have in the URL
&dateStart=15.01.2015&timeStart=08%3A00&
After getting the parameters I have the following: 15.01.2015:08:00
Using Javascript how can I parse this string to get the date in milliseconds?
Date.parse(15.01.2015:08:00)
But obviously this doesn't work.
Date.parse(15-01-2015)
This works and I can change this but then how do I add or get the milliseconds from the time??
This is quite possibly the ugliest JavaScript function I've written in my life but it should work for you.
function millisecondsFromMyDateTime(dateTime) {
var dayMonth = dateTime.split('.');
var yearHourMinute = dayMonth[2].split(':');
var year = yearHourMinute[0];
var month = parseInt(dayMonth[1]) - 1;
var day = dayMonth[0];
var hour = yearHourMinute[1];
var minute = yearHourMinute[2];
var dateTimeObj = new Date(year, month, day, hour, minute, 0, 0);
return dateTimeObj.getTime();
}
It will work with the format that your DateTime is in aka day.month.year:hours:minutes.
You can achieve it using Javascript Date Object and JavaScript getTime() Method:
var dateString="01.15.2015 08:00";
var d = new Date(dateString);
console.log(d);
var ms=d.getTime();
console.log(ms);
ms+=10000;
console.log(new Date(ms));
Here is a DEMO Fiddle.
Note: Change your date string from 15.01.2015:08:00 to "01.15.2015 08:00" because it's not a valid Date format.
Check for format
Date() in javascript :
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date
Format allowed :
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2822#page-14
You can try to use moment.js library like this:
moment('15.01.2015 08:00', 'DD.MM.YYYY HH:mm').milliseconds()
Just for the sake of completion, you can always extract the information and create a Date object from the extracted data.
var dateStart = '15.01.2015'
var timeStart = '08:00';
var year = dateStart.substring(6,10);
var month = dateStart.substring(3,5);
var day = dateStart.substring(0,2);
var hour = timeStart.substring(0,2);
var mins = timeStart.substring(3,5);
var fulldate = new Date(year, month-1, day, hour, mins);
console.log(fulldate.getTime());
I am reading the date from textbox by using javascript and trying to convert it as Date object.But my problem is date is converting as month and month is converting as date when converting the string to date.
Example:
03/12/2014 the value in the textbox
Actual Output:
03 as March,
12 as date (Its wrong)
Expected Output:
03 as date
12 as December (I am expecting)
While converting this string to date by using following snippet
var startTime = document.getElementById("meeting:startTime");
date.js
var stringToDate_startTime=new Date(Date.parse(startTime.value,"dd/mm/yy"));
moment.js
var date1=moment(startTime.value).format('DD-MM-YYYY');
In the above even i have used date.js and moment.js files also.But those also did not solve my problem.Please can anyone help me out to get rid out of this.
Try ...
var from = startTime.value.split("/");
var newDate = newDate(from[2], from[1] - 1, from[0]);
... assuming time included ...
var date_only = startTime.value.split("");
var from = date_only[0].split("/");
var newDate = newDate(from[2], from[1] - 1, from[0]);
I am not aware of an implementation of the Date.parse() method that accepts two arguments. You can view the Mozilla Date.parse() method description here Date.parse() - JavaScript | MDN.
It might be worth looking at the question/answer of this question for some more information: Why does Date.parse give incorrect results?
The next best option would be to split the date using String.split() and to rearrange the date parts
var dateStr = '03/12/2014 23:05';
var newDateStr = null;
var dateParts = dateStr.split('/');
if (dateParts.length == 3) {
var day = dateParts[0];
var month = dateParts[1];
var yearAndTime = dateParts[2];
// Rearrange the month and day and rejoin the date "12/03/2014 23:05"
newDateStr = [ month, day, yearAndTime].join('/');
} else {
throw new Error('Date not in the expected format.');
}
var date = new Date(newDateStr); // JS Engine will parse the string automagically
alert(date);
This isn't the most elegant solution, but hopefully that helps.
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Convert dd-mm-yyyy string to date
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I want to get day from date. Suppose my date is 03-08-2013 it is in d-mm-yyyy format so I just want to get dand that is 03 from above date so I try this code but it does not work
Note
I want to do it without including any js
var date = '08-03-2013';
var d = new Date(date);
alert(d.getDate());
// 2nd way
alert(date.getDate());
it alert NaN. What is missing in this code?
here is jsfiddel Link Jsfiddle Link
UPDATE
Date parsing in JS (and many languages, for that matter) is problematic because when the input is a date string, it's fairly ambiguous what piece of data is what. For example, using your date (August 3, 2013) it could be represented as
03-08-2013 (dd-mm-yyyy)
08-03-2013 (mm-dd-yyyy)
However, given just the date string, there's no way to tell if the date is actually August 3, 2013 or March 8, 2013.
You should pass your date values independently to guarantee the date is correctly parsed:
var
str = '08-03-2013',
parts = str.split('-'),
year = parseInt(parts[2], 10),
month = parseInt(parts[1], 10) - 1, // NB: month is zero-based!
day = parseInt(parts[0], 10),
date = new Date(year, month, day);
alert(date.getDate()); // yields 3
MDN documentation for Date
You can't know the regional settings of your visitors.
If you know the format of the string is always d-mm-yyyy then just parse the value yourself:
function GetDay(rawValue) {
var parts = rawValue.split("-");
if (parts.length === 3) {
var day = parseInt(parts[0], 10);
if (!isNaN(day))
return day;
}
alert("invalid date format");
return null;
}
Live test case.
Use moment.js. It's parsing ability is much more flexible than the Date class.
var m = moment('03-08-2013','DD-MM-YYYY');
var dayOfMonth = m.date();
Use this it that which you want..
var date = '08-03-2013';
date=date.replace(/([0-9]{2})\-([0-9]{2})\-([0-9]{4})/g, '$3-$2-$1');
var d = new Date(date);
alert(d.getDate());
Thanks