javascriptdate

How do I get a date in YYYY-MM-DD format?

Normally if I wanted to get the date I could just do something like

var d = new Date(); console.log(d);

The problem with doing that, is when I run that code, it returns:

Mon Aug 24 2015 4:20:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

How could I get the Date() method to return a value in a "MM-DD-YYYY" format so it would return something like:

8/24/2015

Or, maybe MM-DD-YYYY H:M

8/24/2016 4:20

Solution

  • Just use the built-in .toISOString() method like so: toISOString().split('T')[0]. Simple, clean and all in a single line.

    var date = (new Date()).toISOString().split('T')[0];
document.getElementById('date').innerHTML = date;
    <div id="date"></div>

    Please note that the timezone of the formatted string is UTC rather than local time.