How to get current date without time?

Question

I'm trying to get the current date without the time and store it in a variable, within JavaScript. It needs to be without time as I'm converting it to an epoch date, with which I will use to measure the past 24 hours (if date is within 24 hours then it will be displayed). The problem is that with the added time, it doesn't match as within the last 24 hours.

e.g. it returns the date as the following when converted to epoch: 1408704590485

I want it to be like 1408662000000

I'm not to sure how to do this.

Code - How the current days epoch date is currently being stored -

var epochLoggingFrom;
var epochLoggingTo;

$(document).ready(function () {
    epochLoggingFrom = dateToEpoch(new Date());
    epochLoggingTo = dateToEpoch(new Date());
}

dateToEpoch function -

function dateToEpoch(thedate) {
    return thedate.getTime();
}

Choctaw

linked, but not as much a duplicate is #20188817 – Rameau

Have a look at the answer to the above question; date.setHours(0,0,0,0) should be enough. – Almond

Have a look at momentjs Great library for manipulating dates – Propagation

Also date-fns has startOfToday which does what you want, and isToday which is also useful. – Cromer

Answer 1

Try this:

function dateToEpoch(thedate) {
    var time = thedate.getTime();
    return time - (time % 86400000);
}

or this:

function dateToEpoch2(thedate) {
   return thedate.setHours(0,0,0,0);
}

Example : http://jsfiddle.net/chns490n/1/

Reference: (Number) Date.prototype.setHours(hour, min, sec, millisec)

Linguist

w3schools links make me a sad snarf. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/… – Logography

Answer 2

Try this:

var nowDate = new Date(); 
var date = nowDate.getFullYear()+'/'+(nowDate.getMonth()+1)+'/'+nowDate.getDate(); 

Note: Adjust format as you want, like reorder day, month, year, remove '/' and get combined date etc.

Descendible

Zero Padding: var date = nowDate.getFullYear()+'/'+('0'+(nowDate.getMonth()+1)).substring(0,2)+'/'+('0'+nowDate.getDate()).substring(0,2); – Dulcy

Answer 3

or use this:

dateToEpoch(new Date().toLocaleDateString())

Midlands

Answer 4

Solution:

const date = new Date();
date.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0);

First answer (dateTicks % 86400000) is bad, you can ensure:

const date = new Date();
console.log(date + ' - source datetime');

const date1 = new Date(date);
date1.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0);
console.log(date1 + ' - today via setHours (good)');

const date2ticks = date.getTime();
const date2 = new Date(date2ticks - date2ticks % 86400000);
console.log(date2 + ' - today via remainder (bad)');

console.log(date1 === date2 ? 'two ways are the same!' : 'two ways are the different!'); 

Obduliaobdurate

Answer 5

in 2023 you can use the new Intl js global object new Intl.DateTimeFormat(['ban', 'id']).format(new Date) MDN page

Interbrain

Answer 6

I tried using javascript. this method returns the current date in "DD/MM/YYYY" format.

getCurrentDate() {
  const t = new Date();
  const date = ('0' + t.getDate()).slice(-2);
  const month = ('0' + (t.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2);
  const year = t.getFullYear();
  return `${date}/${month}/${year}`;
}

Pazia

Answer 7

Try this: for people who are here to get just anydate without time.

let date = div.toLocaleString("en-us", { year: 'numeric', month: 'numeric', day: 'numeric' });

Barnard

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