var date = new Date()
Output: "Wed Nov 28 2012 14:55:24 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)"
Want to get rid of the UT and time to output:
"Wed Nov 28 2012"
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"so don't be mean" - I'm not an arithmetic average, so I'm not a mean...user529758– user5297582012-11-28 20:01:41 +00:00Commented Nov 28, 2012 at 20:01
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Also check out Working with Dates for more ideas.Andrew– Andrew2012-11-28 20:04:18 +00:00Commented Nov 28, 2012 at 20:04
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You may use toDateString():
new Date().toDateString(); // "Wed Nov 28 2012"
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Use the toDateString method instead of (implicit) toString:
> new Date().toDateString()
"Wed, 28 Nov 2012"
However, it is implementation-dependent, so if you really need exactly your format you don't get around
var date = new Date();
var day = ["Sun", "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat"][date.getDay()];
var mon = ["Jan", "Feb", "Apr", "Mar", "Mai", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"][date.getMonth()];
return day+" "+mon+" "+date.getDate()+" "+date.getFullYear();
Or have a look at one of the many Date libraries and their format methods.
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VisioN
Hm, but what is actually meant by implementation-dependent?
Esailija
It means that the results can vary between implementations. It means, if you want to write javascript code that works with all browsers, you should not rely on this feature. In opera you get
"Wed, 28 Nov 2012" and in IE9 you get "Wed Nov 28 2012"
maerics
@VisioN: it means that the JavaScript (ECMAScript 262 5th Edition) specification doesn't say exactly how the date string must look, just that it must be "in a convenient, human-readable form".
VisioN
@Esailija Alright, I forgot to test Opera. All my browsers output the same, that's why I doubted. However, if the question goes to truncating time and tz only, then simple
toDateString makes sense.Esailija
What makes sense is to use a date library, so that the format can be whatever you want and be changed easily. :P
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