How do I format a date in JavaScript?

Question

How do I format a Javascript Date object as a string? (Preferably in the format: 10-Aug-2010)

Orly

As usual: beware THE MONTH is ZERO-INDEXED ! So January is zero not one... – Missis

Also beware, myDate.getDay() doesn't return the day of week, but the location of the weekday related to the week. myDate.getDate() returns the current weekday. – Palmore

You can use toLocaleDateString – Heated

@onmyway you actually can't. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/… – Convection

If you’re looking how to parse a string to a Date object, see Parsing a string to a date in JavaScript. – Winton

86 answers. 84 are hard-coded to just this specific format. I'm over 12 years late, but see my answer for a solution for all date format strings you might ever need, without needing an external library. – Swiftlet

13 years later we have Intl.DateTimeFormat. See this Stackblitz-project – Schappe

FWIW: es-date-fiddler – Schappe

Answer 1

For custom-delimited date formats, you have to pull out the date (or time) components from a DateTimeFormat object (which is part of the ECMAScript Internationalization API), and then manually create a string with the delimiters you want.

To do this, you can use DateTimeFormat#formatToParts. You could destructure the array, but that is not ideal, as the array output depends on the locale:

{ // example 1
   let formatter = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en');
   let example = formatter.formatToParts();
   console.log(example);
}
{ // example 2
   let formatter = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('hi');
   let example = formatter.formatToParts();
   console.log(example);
}

Better would be to map a format array to resultant strings:

function join(date, options, separator) {
   function format(option) {
      let formatter = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en', option);
      return formatter.format(date);
   }
   return options.map(format).join(separator);
}

let options = [{day: 'numeric'}, {month: 'short'}, {year: 'numeric'}];
let joined = join(new Date, options, '-');
console.log(joined);

You can also pull out the parts of a DateTimeFormat one-by-one using DateTimeFormat#format, but note that when using this method, as of March 2020, there is a bug in the ECMAScript implementation when it comes to leading zeros on minutes and seconds (this bug is circumvented by the approach above).

let date = new Date(2010, 7, 5);
let year = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en', { year: 'numeric' }).format(date);
let month = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en', { month: 'short' }).format(date);
let day = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en', { day: '2-digit' }).format(date);
console.log(`${day}-${month}-${year}`);

When working with dates and times, it is usually worth using a library (eg. luxon, date-fns, moment.js is not recommended for new projects) because of the many hidden complexities of the field.

Note that the ECMAScript Internationalization API, used in the solutions above is not supported in IE10 (0.03% global browser market share in Feb 2020).

Larina

Or extend the Date object, like I did at #3188290 – Stercoricolous

this is the best answer IMHO (last snippet) because allows flexibility in any format, i.e., you don't need to seek the country code that satisfies your needs – Footwall

The answer is correct, but the laziness on the variable names is really on another level. He write da instead of day. Proper variable names would be really great! – Signature

Why momentjs is not recommended for new project? I used it in the past and I remember it being very useful – Yesteryear

@Yesteryear While momentjs is not deprecated, their authors considered it "abandoned". They are no longer maintaining or improving the library. It's extremely large and provokes issues with popular JS Frameworks such as Angular or React, so it's being superseded by other options. – Hyssop

ECMAScript Internationalization API is well supported now please check caniuse.com/internationalization – Mroz

Answer 2

If you need slightly less control over formatting than the currently accepted answer, Date#toLocaleDateString can be used to create standard locale-specific renderings. The locale and options arguments let applications specify the language whose formatting conventions should be used, and allow some customization of the rendering.

Options key examples:

1. day:
   The representation of the day.
   Possible values are "numeric", "2-digit".
2. weekday:
   The representation of the weekday.
   Possible values are "narrow", "short", "long".
3. year:
   The representation of the year.
   Possible values are "numeric", "2-digit".
4. month:
   The representation of the month.
   Possible values are "numeric", "2-digit", "narrow", "short", "long".
5. hour:
   The representation of the hour.
   Possible values are "numeric", "2-digit".
6. minute: The representation of the minute.
   Possible values are "numeric", "2-digit".
7. second:
   The representation of the second.
   Possible values are "numeric", 2-digit".
8. hour12:
   The representation of time format.
   Accepts boolean true or false

All these keys are optional. You can change the number of options values based on your requirements, and this will also reflect the presence of each date time term.

Note: If you would only like to configure the content options, but still use the current locale, passing null for the first parameter will cause an error. Use undefined instead.

For different languages:

1. "en-US": For American English
2. "en-GB": For British English
3. "hi-IN": For Hindi
4. "ja-JP": For Japanese

You can use more language options.

For example

var options = { weekday: 'long', year: 'numeric', month: 'long', day: 'numeric' };
var today  = new Date();

console.log(today.toLocaleDateString("en-US")); // 9/17/2016
console.log(today.toLocaleDateString("en-US", options)); // Saturday, September 17, 2016
console.log(today.toLocaleDateString("hi-IN", options)); // शनिवार, 17 सितंबर 2016

You can also use the toLocaleString() method for the same purpose. The only difference is this function provides the time when you don't pass any options.

// Example
9/17/2016, 1:21:34 PM

References:

• toLocaleString()

• toLocaleDateString()

Monostich

this says its a non standard, but mozzilla doesn't specify that – Northernmost

Seems like this answer should be the best "current" answer. Also used the option "hour12: true" to use 12-hour vs 24-hour format. Maybe should be added to your summary list in the answer. – Kropotkin

timeZoneName option doesn't works in IE (tested in IE 11) – Belier

@Iarwa1n This answer hasn't mentioned but you can use toLocaleDateString to return only certain parts that you can then join as you wish. Check my answer below. date.toLocaleDateString("en-US", { day: 'numeric' }) + "-"+ date.toLocaleDateString("en-US", { month: 'short' }) + "-" + date.toLocaleDateString("en-US", { year: 'numeric' }) should give 16-Nov-2019 – Sabina

It was a long long dig of following links, but I found where they're hidden @MosesSchwartz: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/… – Stivers

@KVij—that's a very inefficient way to go about formatting a date, especially considering there is a formatToParts method that returns all the parts in an array of objects. – Hewet

Note the following info from the docs "To use the browser's default locale, pass an empty array." (for the locale argument). – Altocumulus

The fact that the current best way is a hardcoded list is something I don't really like. I would like to have a simple option to format in any given format I want to. – Shan

this should be the accepted answer, it is the only one that worked with a minimum of code and no external libraries – Attenuation

this doesnt work in typescript – Choi

Answer 3

If you need to quickly format your date using plain JavaScript, use getDate, getMonth + 1, getFullYear, getHours and getMinutes:

var d = new Date();

var datestring = d.getDate()  + "-" + (d.getMonth()+1) + "-" + d.getFullYear() + " " +
d.getHours() + ":" + d.getMinutes();

// 16-5-2015 9:50

Or, if you need it to be padded with zeros:

var datestring = ("0" + d.getDate()).slice(-2) + "-" + ("0"+(d.getMonth()+1)).slice(-2) + "-" +
    d.getFullYear() + " " + ("0" + d.getHours()).slice(-2) + ":" + ("0" + d.getMinutes()).slice(-2);

// 16-05-2015 09:50

Siege

you can also pad zeros with .toString().padStart(2, '0') – Columba

@BennyJobigan It should be mentioned that String.padStart() is only available from ECMAScript 2017. – Mythopoeic

using ES6 template literals and a helper function let pad = v => `0${v}`.slice(-2); the padded version can be simplified to this: let datestring = `${d.getFullYear()}-${pad(d.getMonth() + 1)}-${pad(d.getDate())}_${pad(d.getHours())}-${pad(d.getMinutes())}`; – Brownley

Answer 4

Use the date.format library:

var dateFormat = require('dateformat');
var now = new Date();
dateFormat(now, "dddd, mmmm dS, yyyy, h:MM:ss TT");

returns:

Saturday, June 9th, 2007, 5:46:21 PM 

dateformat on npm

http://jsfiddle.net/phZr7/1/

Organography

His code for "L" for cantiseconds is wrong, he should remove "L > 99 ?" part... Other than that, it's pretty neat, if not too well localizable. – Artemis

This solution is also available as an npm package: npmjs.com/package/dateformat – Got

If you're going to the trouble of importing a external dependency, I'd recommend using moment.js. It can do this type of date formatting: momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying And it has much more functionality. – Smug

timezone also works well for dateformat compared to Date API in IE – Belier

While the inclusion of Moment.js was fine a few years ago, work on it has since been discontinued: momentjs.com/docs/#/-project-status – Rectocele

Answer 5

Well, what I wanted was to convert today's date to a MySQL friendly date string like 2012-06-23, and to use that string as a parameter in one of my queries. The simple solution I've found is this:

var today = new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 10);

Keep in mind that the above solution does not take into account your timezone offset.

You might consider using this function instead:

function toJSONLocal (date) {
    var local = new Date(date);
    local.setMinutes(date.getMinutes() - date.getTimezoneOffset());
    return local.toJSON().slice(0, 10);
}

This will give you the correct date in case you are executing this code around the start/end of the day.

var date = new Date();

function toLocal(date) {
  var local = new Date(date);
  local.setMinutes(date.getMinutes() - date.getTimezoneOffset());
  return local.toJSON();
}

function toJSONLocal(date) {
  var local = new Date(date);
  local.setMinutes(date.getMinutes() - date.getTimezoneOffset());
  return local.toJSON().slice(0, 10);
}

// check out your devtools console
console.log(date.toJSON());
console.log(date.toISOString());
console.log(toLocal(date));

console.log(toJSONLocal(date));

• Date.toISOString
• Date.toJSON
• String.slice
• External example

Crosslet

You can do new Date(date + " UTC") to trick the timezone, and you can eliminate the setMinutes line. Man, javascript is dirty – Buffon

Y10K compatible version: var today = new Date().toISOString().slice(0,-14) :) – Wizard

Or like this new Date().toISOString().split('T')[0] – Consummation

Y10K compatible and when browser doesn't returns timezone: new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-ca-iso8601').format(new Date()) #6348931 – Consummation

new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 16).replace('T',' ') to include time – Heterolecithal

Just commenting that the lack of timezone is not some minor inconvenience "around the start/end of the day". In Australia, for instance, the date may be wrong until about 11AM - nearly half the day! – Reactant

@slang True, but the lifespan of my program isn't Y10K compatible either :). I'll bank on there being AI to sort this out by then. – Sair

This is simply a bad idea. toISOString will change the date to UTC so it could be +/- 1 day at given time of day. – Zorn

"new Date().toISOString()" can be used for getting a fixed format. And then what do you want... – Raised

Answer 6

Custom formatting function:

For fixed formats, a simple function make the job. The following example generates the international format YYYY-MM-DD:

function dateToYMD(date) {
    var d = date.getDate();
    var m = date.getMonth() + 1; //Month from 0 to 11
    var y = date.getFullYear();
    return '' + y + '-' + (m<=9 ? '0' + m : m) + '-' + (d <= 9 ? '0' + d : d);
}

console.log(dateToYMD(new Date(2017,10,5))); // Nov 5

The OP format may be generated like:

function dateToYMD(date) {
    var strArray=['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'];
    var d = date.getDate();
    var m = strArray[date.getMonth()];
    var y = date.getFullYear();
    return '' + (d <= 9 ? '0' + d : d) + '-' + m + '-' + y;
}
console.log(dateToYMD(new Date(2017,10,5))); // Nov 5

Note: It is, however, usually not a good idea to extend the JavaScript standard libraries (e.g. by adding this function to the prototype of Date).

A more advanced function could generate configurable output based on a format parameter.

If to write a formatting function is too long, there are plenty of libraries around which does it. Some other answers already enumerate them. But increasing dependencies also has it counter-part.

Standard ECMAScript formatting functions:

Since more recent versions of ECMAScript, the Date class has some specific formatting functions:

toDateString: Implementation dependent, show only the date.

https://262.ecma-international.org/#sec-date.prototype.todatestring

new Date().toDateString(); // e.g. "Fri Nov 11 2016"

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toISOString: Show ISO 8601 date and time.

https://262.ecma-international.org/#sec-date.prototype.toisostring

new Date().toISOString(); // e.g. "2016-11-21T08:00:00.000Z"

---

toJSON: Stringifier for JSON.

https://262.ecma-international.org/#sec-date.prototype.tojson

new Date().toJSON(); // e.g. "2016-11-21T08:00:00.000Z"

---

toLocaleDateString: Implementation dependent, a date in locale format.

https://262.ecma-international.org/#sec-date.prototype.tolocaledatestring

new Date().toLocaleDateString(); // e.g. "21/11/2016"

---

toLocaleString: Implementation dependent, a date&time in locale format.

https://262.ecma-international.org/#sec-date.prototype.tolocalestring

new Date().toLocaleString(); // e.g. "21/11/2016, 08:00:00 AM"

---

toLocaleTimeString: Implementation dependent, a time in locale format.

https://262.ecma-international.org/#sec-date.prototype.tolocaletimestring

new Date().toLocaleTimeString(); // e.g. "08:00:00 AM"

---

toString: Generic toString for Date.

https://262.ecma-international.org/#sec-date.prototype.tostring

new Date().toString(); // e.g. "Fri Nov 21 2016 08:00:00 GMT+0100 (W. Europe Standard Time)"

Note: it is possible to generate custom output out of those formatting >

new Date().toISOString().slice(0,10); //return YYYY-MM-DD

Examples snippets:

console.log("1) "+  new Date().toDateString());
console.log("2) "+  new Date().toISOString());
console.log("3) "+  new Date().toJSON());
console.log("4) "+  new Date().toLocaleDateString());
console.log("5) "+  new Date().toLocaleString());
console.log("6) "+  new Date().toLocaleTimeString());
console.log("7) "+  new Date().toString());
console.log("8) "+  new Date().toISOString().slice(0,10));

Specifying the locale for standard functions:

Some of the standard functions listed above are dependent on the locale:

• toLocaleDateString()
• toLocaleTimeString()
• toLocalString()

This is because different cultures make uses of different formats, and express their date or time in different ways. The function by default will return the format configured on the device it runs, but this can be specified by setting the arguments (ECMA-402).

toLocaleDateString([locales[, options]])
toLocaleTimeString([locales[, options]])
toLocaleString([locales[, options]])
//e.g. toLocaleDateString('ko-KR');

The option second parameter, allow for configuring more specific format inside the selected locale. For instance, the month can be show as full-text or abreviation.

toLocaleString('en-GB', { month: 'short' })
toLocaleString('en-GB', { month: 'long' })

Examples snippets:

console.log("1) "+  new Date().toLocaleString('en-US'));
console.log("2) "+  new Date().toLocaleString('ko-KR'));
console.log("3) "+  new Date().toLocaleString('de-CH'));

console.log("4) "+  new Date().toLocaleString('en-GB', { hour12: false }));
console.log("5) "+  new Date().toLocaleString('en-GB', { hour12: true }));

Some good practices regarding locales:

• Most people don't like their dates to appear in a foreigner format, consequently, keep the default locale whenever possible (over setting 'en-US' everywhere).
• Implementing conversion from/to UTC can be challenging (considering DST, time-zone not multiple of 1 hour, etc.). Use a well-tested library when possible.
• Don't assume the locale correlate to a country: several countries have many of them (Canada, India, etc.)
• Avoid detecting the locale through non-standard ways. Here you can read about the multiple pitfalls: detecting the keyboard layout, detecting the locale by the geographic location, etc..

Sattler

Nicely listed the supported parameters of Intl.DateTimeFormat() constructor are listed here: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/… – Pelasgian

.toJSON() uses .toIsoString() under the hood (according to docs). And one needs to be aware that ISO conversions convert to another time zone, which can change the date portion (see other comments). Also, seems the OP wants to convert to an Oracle (etc.) "locale/culture", not a human one... – Vinitavinn

The answer is sufficiently general to be applied for computer-representation AND for human-readable. I would also reiterate that UTC conversion can have tricky effects when DST is switched (twice a year), thus making any bug difficult to detect. – Sattler

Answer 7

If you are already using jQuery UI in your project you could do it this way:

var formatted = $.datepicker.formatDate("M d, yy", new Date("2014-07-08T09:02:21.377"));

// formatted will be 'Jul 8, 2014'

Some datepicker date format options to play with are available here.

Selector

Answer 8

Note (2022-10): toLocaleFormat has been deprecated for some time and was removed from Firefox as of version 58. See toLocaleFormat

I think you can just use the non-standard Date method toLocaleFormat(formatString)

formatString: A format string in the same format expected by the strftime() function in C.

    var today = new Date();
   today.toLocaleFormat('%d-%b-%Y'); // 30-Dec-2011
    

References:

• toLocaleFormat
• strftime

Stellite

toLocaleFormat() appears to only work in Firefox. Both IE and Chrome are failing for me. – Catarrhine

Chrome has .toLocaleString('en') method. As it seems new browser supports this developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/… – Redwing

Read warning here: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/… – Henrietta

new Intl.DateTimeFormat appears to be the replacement developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/… – Coloquintida

7 years later this function still does not work in other browsers and was deprecated in Firefox Deprecated_toLocaleFormat – Uria

toLocaleString() should be used instead: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/… – Jointed

Property 'toLocaleFormat' does not exist on type 'Date'. – Astylar

Deprecated as of Dec 2021 – Abisia

Answer 9

Plain JavaScript is the best pick for small onetimers.

On the other hand, if you need more date stuff, MomentJS is a great solution.

For example:

moment().format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:m:s');     // now() -> 2015-03-24 14:32:20
moment("20111031", "YYYYMMDD").fromNow(); // 3 years ago
moment("20120620", "YYYYMMDD").fromNow(); // 3 years ago
moment().startOf('day').fromNow();        // 11 hours ago
moment().endOf('day').fromNow();          // in 13 hours

Bumbailiff

important to mention: don't use YYYY unless you know the difference between YYYY and yyyy: #15134049 – Reagent

@Reagent that's specific to NSDateFormatter in iOS, as used from e.g. Objective-C or Swift. This question is about Javascript in the browser, and this answer uses MomentJS, in which YYYY (not yyyy) is the standard year and GGGG (not YYYY) is the ISO week-based year. – Etymon

Answer 10

In modern browsers (*), you can just do this:

var today = new Date().toLocaleDateString('en-GB', {
    day : 'numeric',
    month : 'short',
    year : 'numeric'
}).split(' ').join('-');

Output if executed today (january 24ᵗʰ, 2016):

'24-Jan-2016'

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(*) According to MDN, "modern browsers" means Chrome 24+, Firefox 29+, Internet Explorer 11, Edge 12+, Opera 15+ & Safari nightly build.

Cobelligerent

Answer 11

Requested format in one line - no libraries and no Date methods, just regex:

var d = (new Date()).toString().replace(/\S+\s(\S+)\s(\d+)\s(\d+)\s.*/,'$2-$1-$3');
// date will be formatted as "14-Oct-2015" (pass any date object in place of 'new Date()')

In my testing, this works reliably in the major browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox and IE.) As @RobG pointed out, the output of Date.prototype.toString() is implementation-dependent, so for international or non-browser implementations, just test the output to be sure it works right in your JavaScript engine. You can even add some code to test the string output and make sure it's matching what you expect before you do the regex replace.

Glean

Answer 12

Packaged Solution: Luxon or date-fns

If you want to use a one solution to fit all, I recommend using date-fns or Luxon.

Luxon is hosted on the Moment.js website and developed by a Moment.js developer because Moment.js has limitations that the developer wanted to address but couldn't.

To install:

npm install luxon or yarn add luxon (visit link for other installation methods)

Example:

luxon.DateTime.fromISO('2010-08-10').toFormat('yyyy-LLL-dd');

Yields:

10-Aug-2010

Manual Solution

Using similar formatting as Moment.js, Class DateTimeFormatter (Java), and Class SimpleDateFormat (Java), I implemented a comprehensive solution formatDate(date, patternStr) where the code is easy to read and modify. You can display date, time, AM/PM, etc. See code for more examples.

Example:

formatDate(new Date(), 'EEEE, MMMM d, yyyy HH:mm:ss:S')

(formatDate is implemented in the code snippet below)

Yields:

Friday, October 12, 2018 18:11:23:445

Try the code out by clicking "Run code snippet."

Date and Time Patterns

yy = 2-digit year; yyyy = full year

M = digit month; MM = 2-digit month; MMM = short month name; MMMM = full month name

EEEE = full weekday name; EEE = short weekday name

d = digit day; dd = 2-digit day

h = hours am/pm; hh = 2-digit hours am/pm; H = hours; HH = 2-digit hours

m = minutes; mm = 2-digit minutes; aaa = AM/PM

s = seconds; ss = 2-digit seconds

S = miliseconds

var monthNames = [
  "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July",
  "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"
];
var dayOfWeekNames = [
  "Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday",
  "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"
];
function formatDate(date, patternStr){
    if (!patternStr) {
        patternStr = 'M/d/yyyy';
    }
    var day = date.getDate(),
        month = date.getMonth(),
        year = date.getFullYear(),
        hour = date.getHours(),
        minute = date.getMinutes(),
        second = date.getSeconds(),
        miliseconds = date.getMilliseconds(),
        h = hour % 12,
        hh = twoDigitPad(h),
        HH = twoDigitPad(hour),
        mm = twoDigitPad(minute),
        ss = twoDigitPad(second),
        aaa = hour < 12 ? 'AM' : 'PM',
        EEEE = dayOfWeekNames[date.getDay()],
        EEE = EEEE.substr(0, 3),
        dd = twoDigitPad(day),
        M = month + 1,
        MM = twoDigitPad(M),
        MMMM = monthNames[month],
        MMM = MMMM.substr(0, 3),
        yyyy = year + "",
        yy = yyyy.substr(2, 2)
    ;
    // checks to see if month name will be used
    patternStr = patternStr
      .replace('hh', hh).replace('h', h)
      .replace('HH', HH).replace('H', hour)
      .replace('mm', mm).replace('m', minute)
      .replace('ss', ss).replace('s', second)
      .replace('S', miliseconds)
      .replace('dd', dd).replace('d', day)
      
      .replace('EEEE', EEEE).replace('EEE', EEE)
      .replace('yyyy', yyyy)
      .replace('yy', yy)
      .replace('aaa', aaa);
    if (patternStr.indexOf('MMM') > -1) {
        patternStr = patternStr
          .replace('MMMM', MMMM)
          .replace('MMM', MMM);
    }
    else {
        patternStr = patternStr
          .replace('MM', MM)
          .replace('M', M);
    }
    return patternStr;
}
function twoDigitPad(num) {
    return num < 10 ? "0" + num : num;
}
console.log(formatDate(new Date()));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(), 'dd-MMM-yyyy')); //OP's request
console.log(formatDate(new Date(), 'EEEE, MMMM d, yyyy HH:mm:ss.S aaa'));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(), 'EEE, MMM d, yyyy HH:mm'));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(), 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.S'));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(), 'M/dd/yyyy h:mmaaa'));

Thank you @Gerry for bringing up Luxon.

Frap

Yes. Moment is deprecated. Please use luxon – Unmoving

Answer 13

@Sébastien -- alternative all browser support

new Date(parseInt(496407600)*1000).toLocaleDateString('de-DE', {
year: 'numeric',
month: '2-digit',
day: '2-digit'
}).replace(/\./g, '/');

Documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/toLocaleDateString

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High-order tagged template literal example based on Date.toLocaleDateString:

const date = new Date(Date.UTC(2020, 4, 2, 3, 23, 16, 738));
const fmt = (dt, lc = "en-US") => (str, ...expr) =>
    str.map((str, i) => str + (expr[i]?dt.toLocaleDateString(lc, expr[i]) :'')).join('')

console.log(fmt(date)`${{year: 'numeric'}}-${{month: '2-digit'}}-${{day: '2-digit'}}`);
// expected output: "2020-05-02"

Obadias

Instead of doing .replace(), you could simply use 'en-GB' as locale. :) – Runesmith

Answer 14

OK, we have got something called Intl which is very useful for formatting a date in JavaScript these days:

Your date as below:

var date = '10/8/2010';

And you change to Date by using new Date() like below:

date = new Date(date);

And now you can format it any way you like using a list of locales like below:

date = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-AU').format(date); // Australian date format: "8/10/2010" 

date = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US').format(date); // USA date format: "10/8/2010" 

date = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('ar-EG').format(date);  // Arabic date format: "٨‏/١٠‏/٢٠١٠"

If you exactly want the format you mentioned above, you can do:

date = new Date(Date.UTC(2010, 7, 10, 0, 0, 0));
var options = {year: "numeric", month: "short", day: "numeric"};
date = new Intl.DateTimeFormat("en-AU", options).format(date).replace(/\s/g, '-');

And the result is going to be:

"10-Aug-2010"

For more see the Intl API and Intl.DateTimeFormat documentation.

Toul

Not supported by IE – Agustin

It is but only by IE11, IE10- have been out of life way before this existed so it's understandable. 92% from caniuse, which is pretty good caniuse.com/#search=datetimeformat – Fleurette

Answer 15

The Date constructor (and Date.parse()) only accepts one format as a parameter when constructing a date and that is ISO 8601:

// new Date('YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ')
const date = new Date('2017-08-15')

But parsing a from a string is strongly discouraged (MDN recommends against creating date with date strings) due to browser differences and inconsistencies.

The recommended alternative would be building your Date instance directly from the numeric data like this:

new Date(2017, 7, 15) // Month is zero-indexed

That is parsing. Now, to format your date to the string you desire you have several options that are native of the Date object (although I believe none is compliant to the format you require):

date.toString()       // 'Wed Jan 23 2019 17:23:42 GMT+0800 (Singapore Standard Time)'
date.toDateString()   // 'Wed Jan 23 2019'
date.toLocaleString() // '23/01/2019, 17:23:42'
date.toGMTString()    // 'Wed, 23 Jan 2019 09:23:42 GMT'
date.toUTCString()    // 'Wed, 23 Jan 2019 09:23:42 GMT'
date.toISOString()    // '2019-01-23T09:23:42.079Z'

For other formatting options I'm afraid you'll have to turn to libraries such as Moment.js, day.js and the like.

Credit to Zell Liew from this article for the date formatting tips.

Balliett

Answer 16

Using an ECMAScript Edition 6 (ES6/ES2015) string template:

let d = new Date();
let formatted = `${d.getFullYear()}-${d.getMonth() + 1}-${d.getDate()}`;

If you need to change the delimiters:

const delimiter = '/';
let formatted = [d.getFullYear(), d.getMonth() + 1, d.getDate()].join(delimiter);

Festal

Answer 17

Here's is some code I just wrote to handle the date formatting for a project I'm working on. It mimics the PHP date formatting functionality to suit my needs. Feel free to use it, it's just extending the already existing Date() object. This may not be the most elegant solution but it's working for my needs.

var d = new Date(); 
d_string = d.format("m/d/Y h:i:s");

/**************************************
 * Date class extension
 * 
 */
    // Provide month names
    Date.prototype.getMonthName = function(){
        var month_names = [
                            'January',
                            'February',
                            'March',
                            'April',
                            'May',
                            'June',
                            'July',
                            'August',
                            'September',
                            'October',
                            'November',
                            'December'
                        ];

        return month_names[this.getMonth()];
    }

    // Provide month abbreviation
    Date.prototype.getMonthAbbr = function(){
        var month_abbrs = [
                            'Jan',
                            'Feb',
                            'Mar',
                            'Apr',
                            'May',
                            'Jun',
                            'Jul',
                            'Aug',
                            'Sep',
                            'Oct',
                            'Nov',
                            'Dec'
                        ];

        return month_abbrs[this.getMonth()];
    }

    // Provide full day of week name
    Date.prototype.getDayFull = function(){
        var days_full = [
                            'Sunday',
                            'Monday',
                            'Tuesday',
                            'Wednesday',
                            'Thursday',
                            'Friday',
                            'Saturday'
                        ];
        return days_full[this.getDay()];
    };

    // Provide full day of week name
    Date.prototype.getDayAbbr = function(){
        var days_abbr = [
                            'Sun',
                            'Mon',
                            'Tue',
                            'Wed',
                            'Thur',
                            'Fri',
                            'Sat'
                        ];
        return days_abbr[this.getDay()];
    };

    // Provide the day of year 1-365
    Date.prototype.getDayOfYear = function() {
        var onejan = new Date(this.getFullYear(),0,1);
        return Math.ceil((this - onejan) / 86400000);
    };

    // Provide the day suffix (st,nd,rd,th)
    Date.prototype.getDaySuffix = function() {
        var d = this.getDate();
        var sfx = ["th","st","nd","rd"];
        var val = d%100;

        return (sfx[(val-20)%10] || sfx[val] || sfx[0]);
    };

    // Provide Week of Year
    Date.prototype.getWeekOfYear = function() {
        var onejan = new Date(this.getFullYear(),0,1);
        return Math.ceil((((this - onejan) / 86400000) + onejan.getDay()+1)/7);
    } 

    // Provide if it is a leap year or not
    Date.prototype.isLeapYear = function(){
        var yr = this.getFullYear();

        if ((parseInt(yr)%4) == 0){
            if (parseInt(yr)%100 == 0){
                if (parseInt(yr)%400 != 0){
                    return false;
                }
                if (parseInt(yr)%400 == 0){
                    return true;
                }
            }
            if (parseInt(yr)%100 != 0){
                return true;
            }
        }
        if ((parseInt(yr)%4) != 0){
            return false;
        } 
    };

    // Provide Number of Days in a given month
    Date.prototype.getMonthDayCount = function() {
        var month_day_counts = [
                                    31,
                                    this.isLeapYear() ? 29 : 28,
                                    31,
                                    30,
                                    31,
                                    30,
                                    31,
                                    31,
                                    30,
                                    31,
                                    30,
                                    31
                                ];

        return month_day_counts[this.getMonth()];
    } 

    // format provided date into this.format format
    Date.prototype.format = function(dateFormat){
        // break apart format string into array of characters
        dateFormat = dateFormat.split("");

        var date = this.getDate(),
            month = this.getMonth(),
            hours = this.getHours(),
            minutes = this.getMinutes(),
            seconds = this.getSeconds();
        // get all date properties ( based on PHP date object functionality )
        var date_props = {
            d: date < 10 ? '0'+date : date,
            D: this.getDayAbbr(),
            j: this.getDate(),
            l: this.getDayFull(),
            S: this.getDaySuffix(),
            w: this.getDay(),
            z: this.getDayOfYear(),
            W: this.getWeekOfYear(),
            F: this.getMonthName(),
            m: month < 10 ? '0'+(month+1) : month+1,
            M: this.getMonthAbbr(),
            n: month+1,
            t: this.getMonthDayCount(),
            L: this.isLeapYear() ? '1' : '0',
            Y: this.getFullYear(),
            y: this.getFullYear()+''.substring(2,4),
            a: hours > 12 ? 'pm' : 'am',
            A: hours > 12 ? 'PM' : 'AM',
            g: hours % 12 > 0 ? hours % 12 : 12,
            G: hours > 0 ? hours : "12",
            h: hours % 12 > 0 ? hours % 12 : 12,
            H: hours,
            i: minutes < 10 ? '0' + minutes : minutes,
            s: seconds < 10 ? '0' + seconds : seconds           
        };

        // loop through format array of characters and add matching data else add the format character (:,/, etc.)
        var date_string = "";
        for(var i=0;i<dateFormat.length;i++){
            var f = dateFormat[i];
            if(f.match(/[a-zA-Z]/g)){
                date_string += date_props[f] ? date_props[f] : '';
            } else {
                date_string += f;
            }
        }

        return date_string;
    };
/*
 *
 * END - Date class extension
 * 
 ************************************/

Returnee

Answer 18

This may help with the problem:

var d = new Date();

var options = {   
    day: 'numeric',
    month: 'long', 
    year: 'numeric'
};

console.log(d.toLocaleDateString('en-ZA', options));

Tintometer

Answer 19

A JavaScript solution without using any external libraries:

var now = new Date()
months = ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec']
var formattedDate = now.getDate() + "-" + months[now.getMonth()] + "-" + now.getFullYear()
alert(formattedDate)

Tobytobye

Answer 20

A useful and flexible way for formatting the DateTimes in JavaScript is Intl.DateTimeFormat:

var date = new Date();
var options = { year: 'numeric', month: 'short', day: '2-digit'};
var _resultDate = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-GB', options).format(date);
// The _resultDate is: "12 Oct 2017"
// Replace all spaces with - and then log it.
console.log(_resultDate.replace(/ /g,'-'));

Result Is: "12-Oct-2017"

The date and time formats can be customized using the options argument.

The Intl.DateTimeFormat object is a constructor for objects that enable language sensitive date and time formatting.

Syntax

new Intl.DateTimeFormat([locales[, options]])
Intl.DateTimeFormat.call(this[, locales[, options]])

Parameters

locales

Optional. A string with a BCP 47 language tag, or an array of such strings. For the general form and interpretation of the locales argument, see the Intl page. The following Unicode extension keys are allowed:

nu
Numbering system. Possible values include: "arab", "arabext", "bali", "beng", "deva", "fullwide", "gujr", "guru", "hanidec", "khmr", "knda", "laoo", "latn", "limb", "mlym", "mong", "mymr", "orya", "tamldec", "telu", "thai", "tibt".
ca
Calendar. Possible values include: "buddhist", "chinese", "coptic", "ethioaa", "ethiopic", "gregory", "hebrew", "indian", "islamic", "islamicc", "iso8601", "japanese", "persian", "roc".

Options

Optional. An object with some or all of the following properties:

localeMatcher

The locale matching algorithm to use. Possible values are "lookup" and "best fit"; the default is "best fit". For information about this option, see the Intl page.

timeZone

The time zone to use. The only value implementations must recognize is "UTC"; the default is the runtime's default time zone. Implementations may also recognize the time zone names of the IANA time zone database, such as "Asia/Shanghai", "Asia/Kolkata", "America/New_York".

hour12

Whether to use 12-hour time (as opposed to 24-hour time). Possible values are true and false; the default is locale dependent.

formatMatcher

The format matching algorithm to use. Possible values are "basic" and "best fit"; the default is "best fit". See the following paragraphs for information about the use of this property.

The following properties describe the date-time components to use in formatted output and their desired representations. Implementations are required to support at least the following subsets:

weekday, year, month, day, hour, minute, second
weekday, year, month, day
year, month, day
year, month
month, day
hour, minute, second
hour, minute

Implementations may support other subsets, and requests will be negotiated against all available subset-representation combinations to find the best match. Two algorithms are available for this negotiation and selected by the formatMatcher property: A fully specified "basic" algorithm and an implementation dependent "best fit" algorithm.

weekday

The representation of the weekday. Possible values are "narrow", "short", "long".

era

The representation of the era. Possible values are "narrow", "short", "long".

year

The representation of the year. Possible values are "numeric", "2-digit".

month

The representation of the month. Possible values are "numeric", "2-digit", "narrow", "short", "long".

day

The representation of the day. Possible values are "numeric", "2-digit".

hour

The representation of the hour. Possible values are "numeric", "2-digit".

minute

The representation of the minute. Possible values are "numeric", "2-digit".

second

The representation of the second. Possible values are "numeric", "2-digit".

timeZoneName

The representation of the time zone name. Possible values are "short", "long". The default value for each date-time component property is undefined, but if all component properties are undefined, then the year, month and day are assumed to be "numeric".

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Kyongkyoto

Answer 21

new Date().toLocaleDateString()

// "3/21/2018"

More documentation at developer.mozilla.org

Somniloquy

Answer 22

We have lots of solutions for this, but I think the best of them is Moment.js. So I personally suggest to use Moment.js for date and time operations.

console.log(moment().format('DD-MMM-YYYY'));

<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.14.1/moment.min.js"></script>

Tricotine

Answer 23

TypeScript version

It can be easily enhanced to support any format string desired. When a generic solution like this is so easy to create, and date formatting comes up so often in applications, I wouldn't recommend hard-coding date format code all over your application. It's harder to read and hides your intentions. Format strings show your intentions clearly.

Prototype functions

interface Date {
    format(formatString: string): string;
}

Date.prototype.format = function (formatString: string): string {
  return Object.entries({
    YYYY: this.getFullYear(),
    YY: this.getFullYear().toString().substring(2),
    yyyy: this.getFullYear(),
    yy: this.getFullYear().toString().substring(2),
    MMMM: this.toLocaleString('default', { month: 'long' }),
    MMM: this.toLocaleString('default', { month: 'short' }),
    MM: (this.getMonth() + 1).toString().padStart(2, '0'),
    M: this.getMonth() + 1,
    DDDD: this.toLocaleDateString('default', { weekday: 'long' }),
    DDD: this.toLocaleDateString('default', { weekday: 'short' }),
    DD: this.getDate().toString().padStart(2, '0'),
    D: this.getDate(),
    dddd: this.toLocaleDateString('default', { weekday: 'long' }),
    ddd: this.toLocaleDateString('default', { weekday: 'short' }),
    dd: this.getDate().toString().padStart(2, '0'),
    d: this.getDate(),
    HH: this.getHours().toString().padStart(2, '0'), // military
    H: this.getHours().toString(), // military
    hh: (this.getHours() % 12).toString().padStart(2, '0'),
    h: (this.getHours() % 12).toString(),
    mm: this.getMinutes().toString().padStart(2, '0'),
    m: this.getMinutes(),
    SS: this.getSeconds().toString().padStart(2, '0'),
    S: this.getSeconds(),
    ss: this.getSeconds().toString().padStart(2, '0'),
    s: this.getSeconds(),
    TTT: this.getMilliseconds().toString().padStart(3, '0'),
    ttt: this.getMilliseconds().toString().padStart(3, '0'),
    AMPM: this.getHours() < 13 ? 'AM' : 'PM',
    ampm: this.getHours() < 13 ? 'am' : 'pm',
  }).reduce((acc, entry) => {
    return acc.replace(entry[0], entry[1].toString())
  }, formatString)
}

Demo

function unitTest() {
    var d: Date = new Date()
    console.log(d.format('MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss')) // 12/14/2022 03:38:31
    console.log(d.format('yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss')) // 2022-12-14 15:38:31
}

unitTest()

JavaScript version

It's the same. Just remove the interface, and the type names after the colons and their associated colons.

Snippet

Date.prototype.format = function(formatString) {
  return Object.entries({
    YYYY: this.getFullYear(),
    YY: this.getFullYear().toString().substring(2),
    yyyy: this.getFullYear(),
    yy: this.getFullYear().toString().substring(2),
    MMMM: this.toLocaleString('default', { month: 'long'  }),
    MMM: this.toLocaleString('default',  { month: 'short' }),
    MM: (this.getMonth() + 1).toString().padStart(2, '0'),
    M: this.getMonth() + 1,
    DDDD: this.toLocaleDateString('default', { weekday: 'long'  }),
    DDD: this.toLocaleDateString('default',  { weekday: 'short' }),
    DD: this.getDate().toString().padStart(2, '0'),
    D: this.getDate(),
    dddd: this.toLocaleDateString('default', { weekday: 'long'  }),
    ddd: this.toLocaleDateString('default',  { weekday: 'short' }),
    dd: this.getDate().toString().padStart(2, '0'),
    d: this.getDate(),
    HH: this.getHours().toString().padStart(2, '0'), // military
    H: this.getHours().toString(), // military
    hh: (this.getHours() % 12).toString().padStart(2, '0'),
    h: (this.getHours() % 12).toString(),
    mm: this.getMinutes().toString().padStart(2, '0'),
    m: this.getMinutes(),
    SS: this.getSeconds().toString().padStart(2, '0'),
    S: this.getSeconds(),
    ss: this.getSeconds().toString().padStart(2, '0'),
    s: this.getSeconds(),
    TTT: this.getMilliseconds().toString().padStart(3, '0'),
    ttt: this.getMilliseconds().toString().padStart(3, '0'),
    AMPM: this.getHours() < 13 ? 'AM' : 'PM',
    ampm: this.getHours() < 13 ? 'am' : 'pm',
  }).reduce((acc, entry) => {
    return acc.replace(entry[0], entry[1].toString())
  }, formatString)
}



function unitTest() {
  var d = new Date()
  console.log(d.format('MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss')) // 12/14/2022 03:38:31
  console.log(d.format('yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss')) // 2022-12-14 15:38:31
}

unitTest()

Swiftlet

Not a good idea to reinvent the wheel. We have many libraries that are reliable and stable to use such as moment. – Sisneros

@Willian, idk, this works perfectly and it's tiny compared to moment. Show me where it's unreliable or unstable. Also, did you comment on all these other uglier more convoluted answers here as well? – Swiftlet

Well, if you believe your code implementation works perfectly, is reliable, stable, and tiny compared to moment (as you said), just keep using it! So, this answer is getting downvoted because other experienced devs don't think it is a good solution too. So, I'd never recommend this solution to other devs, that is why I downvoted this answer. Again, not a good idea to reinvent the wheel. – Sisneros

@Willian, moment is having a moment, at the moment. I would be unkind of me to not point out to you that moment has had its moment. So find another smaller library that isn't sunsetting, which supports modularized imports. The github readme states it's legacy and you should pick another lib. You're behind on your research. So, after you find the best replacement, come at me again with a stronger case for libs vs roll your own. – Swiftlet

This is an anti-pattern. Don't modify objects you don't own (in this case that's the Date prototype). – Totalitarian

there is no format in javascript 🤦 – Accepted

@jebbie, the format function is defined in my answer. – Swiftlet

.padStart(2, '0') Function is awsome solved all – Nessi

Brilliant, thanks for sharing! Just a flaw though: I had to remove the "M" and "m" indexes since they were conflicting with AMPM/ampm – Juxtaposition

Answer 24

If you are using jQuery UI in your code, there is an inbuilt function called formatDate(). I am using it this way to format today's date:

var testdate = Date();
testdate = $.datepicker.formatDate( "d-M-yy",new Date(testdate));
alert(testdate);

You can see many other examples of formatting date in the jQuery UI documentation.

Bonesetter

Answer 25

This is how I implemented for my npm plugins

var monthNames = [
  "January", "February", "March",
  "April", "May", "June", "July",
  "August", "September", "October",
  "November", "December"
];

var Days = [
  "Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday",
  "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"
];

var formatDate = function(dt,format){
  format = format.replace('ss', pad(dt.getSeconds(),2));
  format = format.replace('s', dt.getSeconds());
  format = format.replace('dd', pad(dt.getDate(),2));
  format = format.replace('d', dt.getDate());
  format = format.replace('mm', pad(dt.getMinutes(),2));
  format = format.replace('m', dt.getMinutes());
  format = format.replace('MMMM', monthNames[dt.getMonth()]);
  format = format.replace('MMM', monthNames[dt.getMonth()].substring(0,3));
  format = format.replace('MM', pad(dt.getMonth()+1,2));
  format = format.replace(/M(?![ao])/, dt.getMonth()+1);
  format = format.replace('DD', Days[dt.getDay()]);
  format = format.replace(/D(?!e)/, Days[dt.getDay()].substring(0,3));
  format = format.replace('yyyy', dt.getFullYear());
  format = format.replace('YYYY', dt.getFullYear());
  format = format.replace('yy', (dt.getFullYear()+"").substring(2));
  format = format.replace('YY', (dt.getFullYear()+"").substring(2));
  format = format.replace('HH', pad(dt.getHours(),2));
  format = format.replace('H', dt.getHours());
  return format;
}

pad = function(n, width, z) {
  z = z || '0';
  n = n + '';
  return n.length >= width ? n : new Array(width - n.length + 1).join(z) + n;
}

Nomo

Which package are you referring to? – Orvil

This has a bug: Month names are replaced first, then the name of the month will be replaced as well. For example March will become 3arch with this code. – Occupation

Change line for 'M' to format = format.replace("M(?!M)", (dt.getMonth()+1).toString()); and put it above line with 'MMMM' – Occupation

Demonstration of this example can be found here: jsfiddle.net/Abeeee/Ly8v3s0x/24 – Alanna

Answer 26

You should have a look at DayJs It's a remake of momentJs but modular architecture oriented so lighter.

Fast 2kB alternative to Moment.js with the same modern API

Day.js is a minimalist JavaScript library that parses, validates, manipulates, and displays dates and times for modern browsers with a largely Moment.js-compatible API. If you use Moment.js, you already know how to use Day.js.

var date = Date.now();
const formatedDate = dayjs(date).format("YYYY-MM-DD")
console.log(formatedDate);

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/dayjs/1.8.16/dayjs.min.js" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

Henpeck

Answer 27

Inspired by JD Smith's marvellous regular expression solution, I suddenly had this head-splitting idea:

var D = Date().toString().split(" ");
console.log(D[2] + "-" + D[1] + "-" + D[3]);

Ahearn

Nice variation if you need it right in the DOM like that! – Glean

Answer 28

var today = new Date();
var formattedToday = today.toLocaleDateString() + ' ' + today.toLocaleTimeString();

Misjoinder

Answer 29

For any one looking for a really simple ES6 solution to copy, paste and adopt:

const dateToString = d => `${d.getFullYear()}-${('00' + (d.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2)}-${('00' + d.getDate()).slice(-2)}` 

// how to use:
const myDate = new Date(Date.parse('04 Dec 1995 00:12:00 GMT'))
console.log(dateToString(myDate)) // 1995-12-04

Slashing

Small improvement: to ensure a two digit result, this works fine: ('0' + oneOrTwoDigitNumber).slice(-2). There is no need to use ('00' + oneOrTwoDigitNumber).slice(-2) because we know that oneOrTwoDigitNumber is at least one digit in length. – Cartage

Answer 30

As of 2019, it looks like you can get toLocaleDateString to return only certain parts and then you can join them as you wish:

var date = new Date();

console.log(date.toLocaleDateString("en-US", { day: 'numeric' }) 
            + "-"+ date.toLocaleDateString("en-US", { month: 'short' })
            + "-" + date.toLocaleDateString("en-US", { year: 'numeric' }) );

> 16-Nov-2019

console.log(date.toLocaleDateString("en-US", { month: 'long' }) 
            + " " + date.toLocaleDateString("en-US", { day: 'numeric' }) 
            + ", " + date.toLocaleDateString("en-US", { year: 'numeric' }) );

> November 16, 2019

Sabina

Answer 31

It works same in Internet Explorer 11, Firefox, and Chrome (Chrome 80.x shows 12 hours format when en-UK selected).

const d = new Date('2010/08/05 23:45') // 26.3.2020
const dtfUK = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('UK', { year: 'numeric', month: '2-digit', day: '2-digit',
        hour: '2-digit',minute: '2-digit', second: '2-digit' }); //
const dtfUS = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en', { year: 'numeric', month: '2-digit', day: '2-digit',
        hour: '2-digit',minute: '2-digit', second: '2-digit' }); //
console.log(dtfUS.format(d)); // 08/05/2010 11:45:00 PM
console.log(dtfUK.format(d)); // 05.08.2010 23:45:00
/* node.js:
08/05/2010, 11:45:00 PM
2010-08-05 23:45:00
*/

What about something more general?

var d = new Date('2010-08-10T10:34:56.789Z');
var str = d.toDateString() + // Tue Aug 10 2010
    ' ' + d.toTimeString().split(' ')[0] + // 12:34:56, GMT+0x00 (GMT+0x:00)
    ' ' + (d.getMonth() + 101) + // 108
    ' ' + d.getMilliseconds(); // 789
console.log(str); // Tue Aug 10 2010 12:34:56 108 789
console.log(//   $1 Tue  $2 Aug  $3 11     $4 2020 $5 12   $6 34   $7 56    $8 108  $9 789
    str.replace(/(\S{3}) (\S{3}) (\d{1,2}) (\d{4}) (\d{2}):(\d{2}):(\d{2}) 1(\d{2}) (\d{1,3})/, '$3-$2-$4 $5:$6.$9 ($1)')
); // 10-Aug-2010 12:34.789 (Tue)
/*
$1: Tue  Week Day string
$2: Aug  Month short text
$3: 11   Day
$4: 2010 Year
$5: 12   Hour
$6: 34   Minute
$7: 56   Seconds
$8: 08   Month
$9: 789  Milliseconds
*/

Or for example 1-line IIFE "library" ;-)

console.log(
    (function (frm, d) { return [d.toDateString(), d.toTimeString().split(' ')[0], (d.getMonth() + 101), d.getMilliseconds()].join(' ').replace(/(\S{3}) (\S{3}) (\d{1,2}) (\d{4}) (\d{2}):(\d{2}):(\d{2}) 1(\d{2}) (\d{1,3})/, frm); })
    ('$4/$8/$3 $5:$6 ($1)', new Date())
);

You can remove useless parts and / or change indexes if you do not need them.

Clavier

Answer 32

The JavaScript Intl.DateTimeFormat method provides a convenient way to format dates.

Here is how the needed format can be constructed:

const date = new Date("2010-08-10");

let d=new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-GB',{year:"numeric", month:"short",day:"2-digit"}).format(date).split(" ").join("-");

console.log(d);

Ken

Answer 33

Simple formatter:

function fmt(date, format = 'YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss') {
  const pad2 = (n) => n.toString().padStart(2, '0');

  const map = {
    YYYY: date.getFullYear(),
    MM: pad2(date.getMonth() + 1),
    DD: pad2(date.getDate()),
    hh: pad2(date.getHours()),
    mm: pad2(date.getMinutes()),
    ss: pad2(date.getSeconds()),
  };

  return Object.entries(map).reduce((prev, entry) => prev.replace(...entry), format);
}

// Usage
console.log(
  fmt(new Date(), 'YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss') // '2023-03-04T10:30:24'
);
console.log(
  fmt(new Date(), 'MM/DD/YYYY, hh:mm:ss') // '03/04/2023, 10:30:24'
);

Orissa

Nice. Very nice – Beeck

Answer 34

In order to format a date as e.g. 10-Aug-2010, you might want to use .toDateString() and ES6 array destructuring.

const formattedDate = new Date().toDateString()
// The above yields e.g. 'Mon Jan 06 2020'

const [, month, day, year] = formattedDate.split(' ')

const ddMmmYyyy = `${day}-${month}-${year}`
// or
const ddMmmYyyy = [day, month, year].join('-')

Pallet

Answer 35

Sugar.js has excellent extensions to the Date object, including a Date.format method.

Examples from the documentation:

Date.create().format('{Weekday} {Month} {dd}, {yyyy}');

Date.create().format('{12hr}:{mm}{tt}')

Changsha

Answer 36

Simply you can do this:

let date = new Date().toLocaleDateString('en-us', {day: 'numeric'})
let month = new Date().toLocaleDateString('en-us', {month: 'long'})
let year = new Date().toLocaleDateString('en-us', {year: 'numeric'})
const FormattedDate = `${date}-${month}-${year}`
console.log(FormattedDate) // 26-March-2022

Cohleen

Answer 37

To obtain "10-Aug-2010", try:

var date = new Date('2010-08-10 00:00:00');
date = date.toLocaleDateString(undefined, {day:'2-digit'}) + '-' + date.toLocaleDateString(undefined, {month:'short'}) + '-' + date.toLocaleDateString(undefined, {year:'numeric'})

For browser support, see toLocaleDateString.

Hyperaesthesia

I did not need a "-", here is a shorter version with time, date and time zone! date=new Date(); date.toLocaleDateString(undefined, {day:'2-digit', month: 'short', year: 'numeric', hour: 'numeric', minute: 'numeric', timeZoneName: 'short'}); :) – Phonic

Answer 38

Two pure JavaScript one-liners

In this answer I develop JD Smith's idea. I was able to shorten the JD Smith regexp.

let format= d=> d.toString().replace(/\w+ (\w+) (\d+) (\d+).*/,'$2-$1-$3');

console.log( format(Date()) );

Dave's is also based on JD Smith's idea, but he avoids regexps and give a very nice solution - I short his solution a little (by changing the split parameter) and opaque it in a wrapper.

let format= (d,a=d.toString().split` `)=> a[2]+"-"+a[1]+"-"+a[3];

console.log( format(Date()) );

Hoad

Answer 39

Try this:

function init(){
    var d = new Date();
    var day = d.getDate();
    var x = d.toDateString().substr(4, 3);
    var year = d.getFullYear();
    document.querySelector("#mydate").innerHTML = day + '-' + x + '-' + year;
}
window.onload = init;

<div id="mydate"></div>

Sylviesylvite

Answer 40

DateFormatter.formatDate(new Date(2010,7,10), 'DD-MMM-YYYY')

=>10-Aug-2010

DateFormatter.formatDate(new Date(), 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss')

=>2017-11-22 19:52:37

DateFormatter.formatDate(new Date(2005, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 'D DD DDD DDDD, M MM MMM MMMM, YY YYYY, h hh H HH, m mm, s ss, a A')

=>2 02 Wed Wednesday, 2 02 Feb February, 05 2005, 3 03 3 03, 4 04, 5 05, am AM

var DateFormatter = {
  monthNames: [
    "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June",
    "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"
  ],
  dayNames: ["Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"],
  formatDate: function (date, format) {
    var self = this;
    format = self.getProperDigits(format, /d+/gi, date.getDate());
    format = self.getProperDigits(format, /M+/g, date.getMonth() + 1);
    format = format.replace(/y+/gi, function (y) {
      var len = y.length;
      var year = date.getFullYear();
      if (len == 2)
        return (year + "").slice(-2);
      else if (len == 4)
        return year;
      return y;
    })
    format = self.getProperDigits(format, /H+/g, date.getHours());
    format = self.getProperDigits(format, /h+/g, self.getHours12(date.getHours()));
    format = self.getProperDigits(format, /m+/g, date.getMinutes());
    format = self.getProperDigits(format, /s+/gi, date.getSeconds());
    format = format.replace(/a/ig, function (a) {
      var amPm = self.getAmPm(date.getHours())
      if (a === 'A')
        return amPm.toUpperCase();
      return amPm;
    })
    format = self.getFullOr3Letters(format, /d+/gi, self.dayNames, date.getDay())
    format = self.getFullOr3Letters(format, /M+/g, self.monthNames, date.getMonth())
    return format;
  },
  getProperDigits: function (format, regex, value) {
    return format.replace(regex, function (m) {
      var length = m.length;
      if (length == 1)
        return value;
      else if (length == 2)
        return ('0' + value).slice(-2);
      return m;
    })
  },
  getHours12: function (hours) {
    // https://mcmap.net/q/37344/-changing-the-1-24-hour-to-1-12-hour-for-the-quot-gethours-quot-method
    return (hours + 24) % 12 || 12;
  },
  getAmPm: function (hours) {
    // https://mcmap.net/q/37345/-how-do-you-display-javascript-datetime-in-12-hour-am-pm-format
    return hours >= 12 ? 'pm' : 'am';
  },
  getFullOr3Letters: function (format, regex, nameArray, value) {
    return format.replace(regex, function (s) {
      var len = s.length;
      if (len == 3)
        return nameArray[value].substr(0, 3);
      else if (len == 4)
        return nameArray[value];
      return s;
    })
  }
}

console.log(DateFormatter.formatDate(new Date(), 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss'));
console.log(DateFormatter.formatDate(new Date(), 'D DD DDD DDDD, M MM MMM MMMM, YY YYYY, h hh H HH, m mm, s ss, a A'));
console.log(DateFormatter.formatDate(new Date(2005, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), 'D DD DDD DDDD, M MM MMM MMMM, YY YYYY, h hh H HH, m mm, s ss, a A'));

The format description was taken from Ionic Framework (it does not support Z, UTC Timezone Offset)

Not thoroughly tested

Misery

Answer 41

Example: "2023-04-25 00:01:23"

    var currentdate = new Date();
    var startedAt = currentdate.getFullYear() + "-" +
        (currentdate.getMonth() + 1).toString().padStart(2, '0') + "-" +
        currentdate.getDate().toString().padStart(2, '0') + " " +
        currentdate.getHours().toString().padStart(2, '0') + ":" +
        currentdate.getMinutes().toString().padStart(2, '0') + ":" +
        currentdate.getSeconds().toString().padStart(2, '0');
        
        console.log(startedAt)

Nessi

Answer 42

If you fancy a short, human-readable, function - this is easily adjustable to suit you.

The timeStamp parameter is milliseconds from 1970 - it is returned by new Date().getTime() and many other devices...

OK, I changed my mind. I included an extra function for zero padding. Curses!

 function zeroPad(aNumber) {
     return ("0"+aNumber).slice(-2);
 }
 function humanTime(timeStamp) {
    var M = ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'];
    var D = new Date(timeStamp); // 23 Aug 2016 16:45:59 <-- Desired format.
    return D.getDate() + " " + M[D.getMonth()] + " " + D.getFullYear() + " " + D.getHours() + ":" + zeroPad(d.getMinutes()) + ":" + zeroPad(D.getSeconds());
 }

Ahearn

Answer 43

I use the following. It is simple and works fine.

 var dtFormat = require('dtformat');
   var today = new Date();
   dtFormat(today, "dddd, mmmm dS, yyyy, h:MM:ss TT");

Or this:

var now = new Date()
months = ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec']
var formattedDate = now.getDate()  + "-" + months[now.getMonth()] + "-" + now.getFullYear()
alert(formattedDate)

Loathing

Second one worked for me, without including any library. Thanks :) – Cheka

Answer 44

Short, widely compatible approach:

function formatDate(date) {
    date.toISOString()
    .replace(/^(\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+).*$/, // Only extract Y-M-D
        function (a,y,m,d) {
            return [
                d, // Day
                ['Jan','Feb','Mar','Apr','May','Jun',  // Month Names
                'Jul','Ago','Sep','Oct','Nov','Dec']
                [m-1], // Month
                y  // Year
            ].join('-') // Stitch together
        })
}

Or, as a single line:

date.toISOString().replace(/^(\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+)T(\d+):(\d+):(\d+).(\d+)Z$/, function (a,y,m,d) {return [d,['Jan','Feb','Mar','Apr','May','Jun','Jul','Ago','Sep','Oct','Nov','Dic'][m-1],y].join('-')})

Madi

Answer 45

If you are already using ExtJS in your project you could use Ext.Date:

var date = new Date();
Ext.Date.format(date, "d-M-Y");

returns:

"11-Nov-2015"

Proverb

Answer 46

There is a new library, smarti.to.js, for localized formatting of JavaScript numbers, dates and JSON dates (Microsoft or ISO8601).

Example:

new Date('2015-1-1').to('dd.MM.yy')         // Outputs 01.01.2015
"2015-01-01T10:11:12.123Z".to('dd.MM.yy')   // Outputs 01.01.2015

There are also custom short patterns defined in the localization file (smarti.to.{culture}.js). Example (smarti.to.et-EE.js):

new Date('2015-1-1').to('d')                // Outputs 1.01.2015

And a multiformatting ability:

smarti.format('{0:n2} + {1:n2} = {2:n2}', 1, 2, 3)   // Output: 1,00 + 2,00 = 3,00

Waits

Answer 47

This is the main answer modified to have 3-char months, and 2-digit year:

function formatDate(date) {
    var monthNames = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"];
    var day = date.getDate(), monthIndex = date.getMonth(), year = date.getFullYear().toString().substr(-2);
    return day + ' ' + monthNames[monthIndex] + ' ' + year;
}

document.write(formatDate(new Date()));

Monocle

Answer 48

Other way that you can format the date:

function formatDate(dDate,sMode){
    var today = dDate;
    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
    }
    if (sMode+""==""){
        sMode = "dd/mm/yyyy";
    }
    if (sMode == "yyyy-mm-dd"){
        return  yyyy + "-" + mm + "-" + dd + "";
    }
    if (sMode == "dd/mm/yyyy"){
        return  dd + "/" + mm + "/" + yyyy;
    }
}

Miramirabeau

Answer 49

yy = 2-digit year; yyyy = full year

M = digit month; MM = 2-digit month; MMM = short month name; MMMM = full month name

EEEE = full weekday name; EEE = short weekday name

d = digit day; dd = 2-digit day

h = hours; hh = 2-digit hours

m = minutes; mm = 2-digit minutes

s = seconds; ss = 2-digit seconds

S = miliseconds

Used similar formating as Class SimpleDateFormat (Java)

var monthNames = [
  "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July",
  "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"
];
var dayOfWeekNames = [
  "Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday",
  "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"
];
function formatDate(date, formatStr){
    if (!formatStr) {
      formatStr = 'dd/mm/yyyy';
    }
    var day = date.getDate(),
        month = date.getMonth(),
        year = date.getFullYear(),
        hour = date.getHours(),
        minute = date.getMinutes(),
        second = date.getSeconds(),
        miliseconds = date.getMilliseconds(),
        hh = twoDigitPad(hour),
        mm = twoDigitPad(minute),
        ss = twoDigitPad(second),
        EEEE = dayOfWeekNames[date.getDay()],
        EEE = EEEE.substr(0, 3),
        dd = twoDigitPad(day),
        M = month + 1,
        MM = twoDigitPad(M),
        MMMM = monthNames[month],
        MMM = MMMM.substr(0, 3),
        yyyy = year + "",
        yy = yyyy.substr(2, 2)
    ;
    return formatStr
      .replace('hh', hh).replace('h', hour)
      .replace('mm', mm).replace('m', minute)
      .replace('ss', ss).replace('s', second)
      .replace('S', miliseconds)
      .replace('dd', dd).replace('d', day)
      .replace('MMMM', MMMM).replace('MMM', MMM).replace('MM', MM).replace('M', M)
      .replace('EEEE', EEEE).replace('EEE', EEE)
      .replace('yyyy', yyyy)
      .replace('yy', yy)
    ;
}
function twoDigitPad(num) {
    return num < 10 ? "0" + num : num;
}
console.log(formatDate(new Date()));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(), 'EEEE, MMMM d, yyyy hh:mm:ss:S'));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(), 'EEE, MMM d, yyyy hh:mm'));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(), 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss:S'));
console.log(formatDate(new Date(), 'yy-MM-dd hh:mm'));

Frap

Answer 50

This function was inspired by Java's SimpleDateFormat provides various formats such as:

dd-MMM-yyyy → 17-Jul-2018
yyyyMMdd'T'HHmmssXX → 20180717T120856+0900
yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssXXX → 2018-07-17T12:08:56+09:00
E, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z → Tue, 17 Jul 2018 12:08:56 +0900
yyyy.MM.dd 'at' hh:mm:ss Z → 2018.07.17 at 12:08:56 +0900
EEE, MMM d, ''yy → Tue, Jul 17, '18
h:mm a → 12:08 PM
hh 'o''''clock' a, X → 12 o'clock PM, +09

Code example:

function formatWith(formatStr, date, opts) {

    if (!date) {
        date = new Date();
    }

    opts = opts || {};

    let _days = opts.days;

    if (!_days) {
        _days = ['Sun', 'Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri', 'Sat'];
    }

    let _months = opts.months;

    if (!_months) {
        _months = ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'];
    }

    const pad = (number, strDigits, isUnpad) => {
        const strNum = number.toString();
        if (!isUnpad && strNum.length > strDigits.length) {
            return strNum;
        } else {
            return ('0000' + strNum).slice(-strDigits.length);
        }
    };

    const timezone = (date, letter) => {
        const chunk = [];
        const offset = -date.getTimezoneOffset();
        chunk.push(offset === 0 ? 'Z' : offset > 0 ? '+' : '-');//add Z or +,-
        if (offset === 0) return chunk;
        chunk.push(pad(Math.floor(offset / 60), '00'));//hour
        if (letter === 'X') return chunk.join('');
        if (letter === 'XXX') chunk.push(':');
        chunk.push(pad((offset % 60), '00'));//min
        return chunk.join('');
    };

    const ESCAPE_DELIM = '\0';
    const escapeStack = [];

    const escapedFmtStr = formatStr.replace(/'.*?'/g, m => {
        escapeStack.push(m.replace(/'/g, ''));
        return ESCAPE_DELIM + (escapeStack.length - 1) + ESCAPE_DELIM;
    });

    const formattedStr = escapedFmtStr
        .replace(/y{4}|y{2}/g, m => pad(date.getFullYear(), m, true))
        .replace(/M{3}/g, m => _months[date.getMonth()])
        .replace(/M{1,2}/g, m => pad(date.getMonth() + 1, m))
        .replace(/M{1,2}/g, m => pad(date.getMonth() + 1, m))
        .replace(/d{1,2}/g, m => pad(date.getDate(), m))
        .replace(/H{1,2}/g, m => pad(date.getHours(), m))
        .replace(/h{1,2}/g, m => {
            const hours = date.getHours();
            return pad(hours === 0 ? 12 : hours > 12 ? hours - 12 : hours, m);
        })
        .replace(/a{1,2}/g, m => date.getHours() >= 12 ? 'PM' : 'AM')
        .replace(/m{1,2}/g, m => pad(date.getMinutes(), m))
        .replace(/s{1,2}/g, m => pad(date.getSeconds(), m))
        .replace(/S{3}/g, m => pad(date.getMilliseconds(), m))
        .replace(/[E]+/g, m => _days[date.getDay()])
        .replace(/[Z]+/g, m => timezone(date, m))
        .replace(/X{1,3}/g, m => timezone(date, m))
    ;

    const unescapedStr = formattedStr.replace(/\0\d+\0/g, m => {
        const unescaped = escapeStack.shift();
        return unescaped.length > 0 ? unescaped : '\'';
    });

    return unescapedStr;
}

// Let's format with above function
const dateStr = '2018/07/17 12:08:56';
const date = new Date(dateStr);
const patterns = [
    "dd-MMM-yyyy",
    "yyyyMMdd'T'HHmmssXX",//ISO8601
    "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssXXX",//ISO8601EX
    "E, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss Z",//RFC1123(RFC822) like email
    "yyyy.MM.dd 'at' hh:mm:ss Z",//hh shows 1-12
    "EEE, MMM d, ''yy",
    "h:mm a",
    "hh 'o''''clock' a, X",
];

for (let pattern of patterns) {
    console.log(`${pattern} → ${formatWith(pattern, date)}`);
}

And you can use this as a library

It is also released as an NPM module. You can use this on Node.js or use this from a CDN for a browser.

Node.js

const {SimpleDateFormat} = require('@riversun/simple-date-format');

In the browser

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@riversun/[email protected]/dist/simple-date-format.js"></script>

Write the code as follows.

const date = new Date('2018/07/17 12:08:56');
const sdf = new SimpleDateFormat();
console.log(sdf.formatWith("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssXXX", date));//to be "2018-07-17T12:08:56+09:00"

Source code here on GitHub:

https://github.com/riversun/simple-date-format

Hoatzin

Answer 51

Use this procedure

const MONTHS = ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sept', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec']

const date = new Date()

const dateString = `${date.getDate()}-${MONTHS[date.getMonth()]}-${date.getFullYear()}`

console.log(dateString)

Blemish

Answer 52

In my case, I have formatted the date from '01/07/2022' to '2022-07-01':

const formatDate = date => {
    const d = new Date(date)
    let month = (d.getMonth() + 1).toString()
    let day = d.getDate().toString()
    const year = d.getFullYear()
    if (month.length < 2) {
        month = '0' + month
    }
    if (day.length < 2) {
        day = '0' + day
    }
    return [ year, month, day ].join('-')
}

console.log(formatDate('01/07/2022'))

Wooten

Answer 53

Here is a script that does exactly what you want

https://github.com/UziTech/js-date-format

var d = new Date("2010-8-10");
document.write(d.format("DD-MMM-YYYY"));

Multure

Extending native prototypes is not a good idea. There are plenty of other tools out there, like Moment.js, that accomplish the same thing without touching the Date prototype. – Spatola

Answer 54

The following code will allow you to format the date to either DD-MM-YYYY (27-12-2017) or DD MMM YYYY (27 Dec 2017) :

/** Pad number to fit into nearest power of 10 */
function padNumber(number, prependChar, count) {
  var out = '' + number; var i;
  if (number < Math.pow(10, count))
    while (out.length < ('' + Math.pow(10, count)).length) out = prependChar + out;
  
  return out;
}

/* Format the date to 'DD-MM-YYYY' or 'DD MMM YYYY' */
function dateToDMY(date, useNumbersOnly) {
  var months = [
    'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 
    'Nov', 'Dec'
  ];

  return '' + padNumber(date.getDate(), '0', 1) + 
   (useNumbersOnly? '-' + padNumber(date.getMonth() + 1, '0', 1) + '-' : ' ' + months[date.getMonth()] + ' ')
    + date.getFullYear();
}

Change the order of date.getFullYear() and padNumber(date.getDate(), '0', 1) to make a dateToYMD() function.

See repl.it example for details.

Decortication

Answer 55

I know someone might say that this is silly solution, but it does do the trick by removing the unnecessary information from the date string.

yourDateObject produces:

Wed Dec 13 2017 20:40:40 GMT+0200 (EET)

yourDateObject.toString().slice(0, 15); produces:

Wed Dec 13 2017

Vapid

Answer 56

You don't need any libraries. Just extract date components and construct the string. Here is how to get YYYY-MM-DD format. Also note the month index "January is 0, February is 1, and so on."

// @flow

type Components = {
  day: number,
  month: number,
  year: number
}

export default class DateFormatter {
  // YYYY-MM-DD
  static YYYY_MM_DD = (date: Date): string => {
    const components = DateFormatter.format(DateFormatter.components(date))
    return `${components.year}-${components.month}-${components.day}`
  }

  static format = (components: Components) => {
    return {
      day: `${components.day}`.padStart(2, '0'),
      month: `${components.month}`.padStart(2, '0'),
      year: components.year
    }
  }

  static components = (date: Date) => {
    return {
      day: date.getDate(),
      month: date.getMonth() + 1,
      year: date.getFullYear()
    }
  }
}

Heated

Answer 57

A simple function that can return the date, the date + time, or just the time:

var myDate = dateFormatter("2019-01-24 11:33:24", "date-time");
// >> RETURNS "January 24, 2019 11:33:24"

var myDate2 = dateFormatter("2019-01-24 11:33:24", "date");
// >> RETURNS "January 24, 2019"

var myDate3 = dateFormatter("2019-01-24 11:33:24", "time");
// >> RETURNS "11:33:24"


function dateFormatter(strDate, format){
    var theDate = new Date(strDate);
    if (format=="time")
       return getTimeFromDate(theDate);
    else{
       var dateOptions = {year:'numeric', month:'long', day:'numeric'};
       var formattedDate = theDate.toLocaleDateString("en-US", + dateOptions);
       if (format=="date")
           return formattedDate;
       return formattedDate + " " + getTimeFromDate(theDate);
    }
}

function getTimeFromDate(theDate){
    var sec = theDate.getSeconds();
    if (sec<10)
        sec = "0" + sec;
    var min = theDate.getMinutes();
    if (min<10)
        min = "0" + min;
    return theDate.getHours() + ':'+ min + ':' + sec;
}

Vansickle

Answer 58

This module can easily handle mostly every case there is. It is part of a bigger npm package, by Locutus, which includes a variety of functions, but it can be used totally independent of the package itself, just copy paste/ adapt a little if not working with npm (change from a module to just a function).

As a second parameter it accepts a timestamp, which can come from anywhere, such as Date.getTime().

Also, Locutus maintains a bigger datetime module, also inside the locutus package which will give a more object-oriented way to use it.

Here you can see other datetime functions, as modules, that proved to be very useful too.

You can find documentation on parameters and format strings here (note that the documentation site is a PHP site, but the locutus implementation follows exactly the same specifications).

Examples of the date Module

date('H:m:s \\m \\i\\s \\m\\o\\n\\t\\h', 1062402400)//'07:09:40 m is month'

date('F j, Y, g:i a', 1062462400)//'September 2, 2003, 12:26 am'

date('Y W o', 1062462400)//'2003 36 2003'

var $x = date('Y m d', (new Date()).getTime() / 1000) $x = $x + '' var $result = $x.length // 2009 01 09    10

date('W', 1104534000)    //'52'

date('B t', 1104534000)    //'999 31'

date('W U', 1293750000.82); // 2010-12-31    '52 1293750000'

date('W', 1293836400); // 2011-01-01    '52'

date('W Y-m-d', 1293974054); // 2011-01-02    '52 2011-01-02'

Encamp

Answer 59

function convert_month(i = 0, option = "num") { // i = index

  var object_months = [
    { num: 01, short: "Jan", long: "January" },
    { num: 02, short: "Feb", long: "Februari" }, 
    { num: 03, short: "Mar", long: "March" },          
    { num: 04, short: "Apr", long: "April" },
    { num: 05, short: "May", long: "May" },
    { num: 06, short: "Jun", long: "Juni" },
    { num: 07, short: "Jul", long: "July" },
    { num: 08, short: "Aug", long: "August" },
    { num: 09, short: "Sep", long: "September" },
    { num: 10, short: "Oct", long: "October" },
    { num: 11, short: "Nov", long: "November" },
    { num: 12, short: "Dec", long: "December" }
  ];
        
  return object_months[i][option];

}
      
var d = new Date();
      
// https://mcmap.net/q/37346/-how-can-i-do-string-interpolation-in-javascript
var num   = `${d.getDate()}-${convert_month(d.getMonth())}-${d.getFullYear()}`;
var short = `${d.getDate()}-${convert_month(d.getMonth(), "short")}-${d.getFullYear()}`;
var long  = `${d.getDate()}-${convert_month(d.getMonth(), "long")}-${d.getFullYear()}`;

document.querySelector("#num").innerHTML = num;
document.querySelector("#short").innerHTML = short;
document.querySelector("#long").innerHTML = long;

<p>Numeric  : <span id="num"></span> (default)</p>
<p>Short    : <span id="short"></span></p>
<p>Long     : <span id="long"></span></p>

Jacobi

Answer 60

Though new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 10); is tres hipster and good for my normal use case, I didn't love any of the first few answers for a more customized string, and gave myself a few minutes to go as hipster golfy & one-linery as possible.

I didn't quite see the solution I came up with, so here it is...

((d,x)=>`${d.getFullYear()}-${x(d.getMonth()+1)}-${x(d.getDate())}`)
    (new Date(), (x)=>x.toString().padStart(2,"0"))

// today that produces
// '2022-09-28'
// the same as new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 10)
// but provides a good framework for other orders or values

Pseudo-IIFE for the win.

The problems solved here, of course, are...

1. You may need to format days and months less than 10 with leading zeroes.
   • So pass in a function that casts to string & padStarts.
2. You need to get the same date in there without going new Date() over and over.
   • Get "now" (new Date()) and pass in as a parameter to reuse.
3. You gotta add 1 to getMonth.
   • Do that.

You could do similar tricks even if you needed to map to month abbreviations or something, not that it'd be very cute.

((d,x,y)=>`${x(d.getDate())} ${y(d.getMonth())} ${d.getFullYear()}`)
    (
     new Date(), 
     (x)=>x.toString().padStart(2,"0"), 
     (m)=>"jan,feb,mar,apr,may,jun,jul,aug,sep,oct,nov,dec".split(',')[m]
    )

// As of this writing, that yields...
// '28 sep 2022'

(obviously remove whitespace from both for increased golfness; didn't want code blocks to scroll)

... though I'd have a hard time recommending that for anything but creating test values from the console for some strange reason. Really weird that there's no toString('yyyy-mm-dd'), and that's as close as I could get in a line.

Hamite

Answer 61

Add the jQuery UI plugin to your page:

function DateFormate(dateFormate, datetime) {
    return $.datepicker.formatDate(dateFormate, datetime);
};

Cesaro

Don't add jQuery and jQuery UI just to format a date! – Proline

if you already using Jquery UI in your project it could be a good approach,but it seems you can only show the date portion , no hours, minutes or seconds – Chapin

why not plain jquery? $.format.date(new Date(), 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss') – Finn

@Finn That is not plain jquery, that's another plugin. – Melodic

Answer 62

Use:

thisDate = new Date(parseInt(jsonDateString.replace('/Date(', '')));
formattedDate = (thisDate.getMonth() + 1) + "/" + (thisDate.getDate()+1) + "/" + thisDate.getFullYear();

This takes a JSON date, "/Date(1429573751663)/" and produces as the formatted string:

"4/21/2015"

Blasphemy

There is no such thing as a JSON date. – Manifestation

Answer 63

2.39KB minified. One file. https://github.com/rhroyston/clock-js

10-Aug-2010 would be:

var str = clock.month
str.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + str.slice(1,3); //gets you "Aug"
console.log(clock.day + '-' + str + '-' + clock.year); //gets you 10-Aug-2010

Gwenny

Still having to do stuff like str.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + str.slice(1,3); kinda defeats the purpose of using a library. Why don't you add out-of-the-box support for three letter month formats? Also, you might want to consider adding internationalization to you library, as a library like this would be kinda useless for non-English websites without it! – Cobelligerent

Answer 64

Here is some ready-to-paste time/date formatting code that does not rely on any external modules/libraries or use jQuery or ES7 or anything. Unlike the code in some other answers, this code offers this combination of features:

• it takes a JavaScript Date object as input
• it can display date as local time zone or UTC
• it uses a simple formatting system "{year4} {month02} {second}" that is easy to read and understand even after you write the code, unlike the typical "%D %m %-" which always forces you back to the documentation
• the formatting system does not have any weird self-collisions like some ad-hoc "DD MM YYYY" systems
• you can run the test right here and try it

// format_date(date, pattern, utc)
// - date
//   - a JavaScript Date object
//   - use "new Date()" for current time
// - pattern
//   - a string with embedded {codes} like
//     "{year4}-{month02}-{day02}: {dayname3}"
//     see format_date_funcs below for complete list
//   - any other letters go through unchanged
// - utc
//   - if true, shows date in UTC time "zone"
//   - if false/omitted, shows date in local time zone
//
var month_names =
[
  "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July",
  "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"
];
var day_of_week_names =
[
  "Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday",
  "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"
];

function space_pad2(num)
{
    return num < 10 ? " " + num : num;
}

function zero_pad2(num)
{
    return num < 10 ? "0" + num : num;
}

function space_pad3(num)
{
    if (num < 10)
        return "  " + num;
    else if (num < 100)
        return " " + num;
    else
        return num;
}

function zero_pad3(num)
{
    if (num < 10)
        return "00" + num;
    else if (num < 100)
        return "0" + num;
    else
        return num;
}

var format_date_funcs =
{
    // {year4}  = '1902'
    // {year02} =   '02'
    //
    'year4': function(date, utc)
    {
        var year = utc ? date.getUTCFullYear() : date.getFullYear();
        return year;
    },
    'year02': function(date, utc)
    {
        var year = utc ? date.getUTCFullYear() : date.getFullYear();
        return year.toString().substr(2,2);
    },
    // {month}   =  '1' - '12'
    // {month2}  = ' 1' - '12' (space padded)
    // {month02} = '01' - '12'
    //
    'month': function(date, utc)
    {
        var month = utc ? date.getUTCMonth() : date.getMonth(); // [0,11]
        return            month + 1;
    },
    'month2': function(date, utc)
    {
        var month = utc ? date.getUTCMonth() : date.getMonth(); // [0,11]
        return space_pad2(month + 1);
    },
    'month02': function(date, utc)
    {
        var month = utc ? date.getUTCMonth() : date.getMonth(); // [0,11]
        return zero_pad2(month + 1);
    },
    // {monthname}  = 'January'
    // {monthname3} = 'Jan'
    //
    'monthname': function(date, utc)
    {
        var month = utc ? date.getUTCMonth() : date.getMonth(); // [0,11]
        return month_names[month];
    },
    'monthname3': function(date, utc)
    {
        var month = utc ? date.getUTCMonth() : date.getMonth(); // [0,11]
        return month_names[month].substr(0, 3);
    },
    // {day}   =  '1' - '31'
    // {day2}  = ' 1' - '31' (space padded)
    // {day02} = '01' - '31'
    //
    'day': function(date, utc)
    {
        var date = utc ? date.getUTCDate() : date.getDate(); // [1,31]
        return date;
    },
    'day2': function(date, utc)
    {
        var date = utc ? date.getUTCDate() : date.getDate(); // [1,31]
        return space_pad2(date);
    },
    'day02': function(date, utc)
    {
        var date = utc ? date.getUTCDate() : date.getDate(); // [1,31]
        return zero_pad2(date);
    },
    // {dayname}  = 'Tuesday'
    // {dayname3} = 'Tue'
    //
    'dayname': function(date, utc)
    {
        var day = utc ? date.getUTCDay() : date.getDay(); // [0,6]
        return day_of_week_names[day];
    },
    'dayname3': function(date, utc)
    {
        var day = utc ? date.getUTCDay() : date.getDay(); // [0,6]
        return day_of_week_names[day].substr(0,3);
    },
    // {24hour}   =  '0' - '23'
    // {24hour2}  = ' 0' - '23' (space padded)
    // {24hour02} = '00' - '23'
    //
    '24hour': function(date, utc)
    {
        var hour = utc ? date.getUTCHours() : date.getHours(); // [0,23]
        return hour;
    },
    '24hour2': function(date, utc)
    {
        var hour = utc ? date.getUTCHours() : date.getHours(); // [0,23]
        return space_pad2(hour);
    },
    '24hour02': function(date, utc)
    {
        var hour = utc ? date.getUTCHours() : date.getHours(); // [0,23]
        return zero_pad2(hour);
    },
    // {12hour}   =  '1' - '12'
    // {12hour2}  = ' 1' - '12' (space padded)
    // {12hour02} = '01' - '12'
    // {ampm}     = 'am' or 'pm'
    // {AMPM}     = 'AM' or 'PM'
    //
    '12hour': function(date, utc)
    {
        var hour = utc ? date.getUTCHours() : date.getHours(); // [0,23]
        hour = hour % 12; // [0,11]
        if (0 === hour) hour = 12;
        return hour;
    },
    '12hour2': function(date, utc)
    {
        var hour = utc ? date.getUTCHours() : date.getHours(); // [0,23]
        hour = hour % 12; // [0,11]
        if (0 === hour) hour = 12;
        return space_pad2(hour);
    },
    '12hour02': function(date, utc)
    {
        var hour = utc ? date.getUTCHours() : date.getHours(); // [0,23]
        hour = hour % 12; // [0,11]
        if (0 === hour) hour = 12;
        return zero_pad2(hour);
    },
    'ampm': function(date, utc)
    {
        var hour = utc ? date.getUTCHours() : date.getHours(); // [0,23]
        return (hour < 12 ? 'am' : 'pm');
    },
    'AMPM': function(date, utc)
    {
        var hour = utc ? date.getUTCHours() : date.getHours(); // [0,23]
        return (hour < 12 ? 'AM' : 'PM');
    },
    // {minute}   =  '0' - '59'
    // {minute2}  = ' 0' - '59' (space padded)
    // {minute02} = '00' - '59'
    //
    'minute': function(date, utc)
    {
        var minute = utc ? date.getUTCMinutes() : date.getMinutes(); // [0,59]
        return minute;
    },
    'minute2': function(date, utc)
    {
        var minute = utc ? date.getUTCMinutes() : date.getMinutes(); // [0,59]
        return space_pad2(minute);
    },
    'minute02': function(date, utc)
    {
        var minute = utc ? date.getUTCMinutes() : date.getMinutes(); // [0,59]
        return zero_pad2(minute);
    },
    // {second}   =  '0' - '59'
    // {second2}  = ' 0' - '59' (space padded)
    // {second02} = '00' - '59'
    //
    'second': function(date, utc)
    {
        var second = utc ? date.getUTCSeconds() : date.getSeconds(); // [0,59]
        return second;
    },
    'second2': function(date, utc)
    {
        var second = utc ? date.getUTCSeconds() : date.getSeconds(); // [0,59]
        return space_pad2(second);
    },
    'second02': function(date, utc)
    {
        var second = utc ? date.getUTCSeconds() : date.getSeconds(); // [0,59]
        return zero_pad2(second);
    },
    // {msec}   =   '0' - '999'
    // {msec3}  = '  0' - '999' (space padded)
    // {msec03} = '000' - '999'
    //
    'msec': function(date, utc)
    {
        var msec =
            utc ? date.getUTCMilliseconds() : date.getMilliseconds(); // [0,999]
        return msec;
    },
    'msec3': function(date, utc)
    {
        var msec =
            utc ? date.getUTCMilliseconds() : date.getMilliseconds(); // [0,999]
        return space_pad3(msec);
    },
    'msec03': function(date, utc)
    {
        var msec =
            utc ? date.getUTCMilliseconds() : date.getMilliseconds(); // [0,999]
        return zero_pad3(msec);
    },
    // {open} = '{' (in case you actually want '{' in the output)
    //
    'open': function(date, utc)
    {
        return '{';
    },
    // {close} = '}' (in case you actually want '}' in the output)
    //
    'close': function(date, utc)
    {
        return '}';
    },
};

function format_date(date, pattern, utc)
{
    if (!pattern)
    {
        pattern = '{month}/{day}/{year4}';
    }

    var ret = '';

    while (pattern.length > 0)
    {
        var s = pattern.indexOf('{');
        var e = pattern.indexOf('}');
        //console.log('s ' + s + ' e ' + e);
        if (-1 !== s && -1 !== e && s < e)
        {
            // - there is a well-formed {foo} in range [s,e]
            // - first we emit range [0,s) as literal
        }
        else
        {
            // - rest of string has no {} or has malformed }{ or { or }
            // - just emit the rest of the string as literal and be done
            s = pattern.length;
        }
        // emit range [0,s) as literal
        if (s > 0)
        {
            ret += pattern.substr(0, s);
            pattern = pattern.substr(s);
            e -= s;
            s = 0;
        }

        if (0 === pattern.length) break;

        // emit range [s=0,e] by evaluating code
        console.assert(0 === s); // position of {
        console.assert(e > 0);  // position of }
        console.assert('{' === pattern.substr(s, 1));
        console.assert('}' === pattern.substr(e, 1));
        var code = pattern.substr(1,e-1);
        var func = format_date_funcs[code];
        console.assert(func);
        ret += func(date, utc);

        pattern = pattern.substr(e+1);
    }

    return ret;
}

if (1) // test format_date
{
    var fmt = '[';
    for (var func in format_date_funcs)
    {
        if (!format_date_funcs.hasOwnProperty(func)) continue;
        fmt += '{' + func + '}/';
    }
    fmt += ']';
    var now = new Date();
    console.log(fmt);
    console.log(format_date(now, fmt, false /* utc */));
    console.log(format_date(now, fmt, true /* utc */));
}

Nullipore

There is a huge amount of redundancy in this code. Is it really necessary? – Oratorical

I'm sure you could scrunch it down, but I like having each case spelled out for readability. Especially the 'foo' 'foo2' 'foo02' cases because all 3 cases don't always apply for every 'foo' and it's simpler to explain that by showing everything in a list. Keeping it simple and easy to read and understand. – Nullipore

Answer 65

Maybe this helps some one who are looking for multiple date formats one after the other by willingly or unexpectedly. Please find the code: I am using the Moment.js format function on a current date as (today is 29-06-2020): var startDate = moment(new Date()).format('MM/DD/YY'); Result: 06/28/20

It retains only the year part: 20 as "06/28/20", after if I run the statement new Date(startDate), the result is "Mon Jun 28 1920 00:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)".

Then, when I use another format on "06/28/20": startDate = moment(startDate ).format('MM-DD-YYYY'); Result: 06-28-1920, in Google Chrome and Firefox browsers, it gives the correct date on the second attempt as: 06-28-2020.

But in Internet Explorer it is having issues. From this I understood we can apply one dateformat on the given date. If we want a second date format, it should be apply on the fresh date, not on the first date format result. And also observe that for the first time applying 'MM-DD-YYYY' and next 'MM-DD-YY' is working in Internet Explorer. For a clear understanding, please find my question in the link: Date went wrong when using Moment.js date format in Internet Explorer 11.

Siliculose

Answer 66

String conversion

// date 
const dateConvert = {
  dasher: dt => {
    let m = (dt.getMonth() + 1) === 13 ? 1 : (dt.getMonth() + 1);
    m = m < 10 ? `0${m}` : m.toString();
    let d = dt.getDate();
    d = d < 10 ? `0${d}` : d.toString();
    return `${dt.getFullYear()}-${m}-${d}`;
  }, 
  slasher: dt => {
    return dateConvert.slash(dateConvert.dasher(dt));
  }, 
  dash: str => {
    // 03/11/2022 -> 2022-03-11
    let [d, m, y] = str.split('/');
    return `${y}-${m}-${d}`;
  }, 
  slash: str => {
    // 2022-03-11 -> 03/11/2022
    let [y, m, d] = str.split('-');
    return `${d}/${m}/${y}`
  }
}

// console.log(dateConvert.dasher(new Date('01/31/2001')));

Sofia

Answer 67

I have this code for adding days and format to a date.

 const FechaMaxima = new Date();
 FechaMaxima.setDate(FechaMaxima.getDate() + 6);
 FechaMaxima.toISOString().substring(0, 10);

Klina

Answer 68

Use "date-fns"

import { format } from "date-fns";

format(new Date(2024, 1, 24), "MM/dd/yyyy"); // '01/24/2024'
format(new Date(2024, 10, 6), 'MMM') //=> 'Nov'
format(new Date(2024, 10, 6), 'MMMM') //=> 'November'

Eboni

Answer 69

I just split it with 'T'

  date = "2023-11-15T00:00:00.000+00:00"
  myDate = date.split('T')[0]

Zig

Answer 70

Formatting Date to different formats

let objectDate = new Date();



let day = objectDate.getDate();
console.log(day); // 12


let currentmo = objectDate.getMonth();
month = currentmo + 1;
console.log(month + 1); // 1


let year = objectDate.getFullYear();
console.log(year); // 2023



// Now you can set it accordingly


// dd/mm/yyyy
console.log(day + '/' + month + '/' + year);


// mm/dd/yyyy
console.log(month + '/' + day + '/' + year);

Try out this code - https://bbbootstrap.com/code/format-date-javascript-49065802

Deuterium

Answer 71

This can help:

export const formatDateToString = date => {
    if (!date) {
        return date;
    }
    try {
        return format(parse(date, 'yyyy-MM-dd', new Date()), 'dd/MM/yyyy');
    } catch (error) {
        return 'invalid date';
    }
};

Diecious