JavaScript: How to JSON.Stringify Date object without ISO Date Conversion

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I'm sending the following JSON as part of an Ajax request, where Param #1 is a Date string.

data : JSON.stringify({'localCreatedDate' : new Date(), 
                       'localUserAgent' : navigator.userAgent
                       )});

However, the date I need is the original literal JS string which looks like:

Sun Sep 08 2019 17:33:32 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

But JSON.stringify() is making it:

2019-09-08T21:33:32.016Z

Dacre Denny · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-08 21:46:27Z

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Rather than send the Date object directly, you could call Date#toString() to ensure that localCreatedDate is sent to the server as a string, in the required format:

data : JSON.stringify({
    'localCreatedDate' : new Date().toString(), 
    'localUserAgent' : navigator.userAgent
});

answered Sep 8, 2019 at 21:46

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0.sh · Accepted Answer · 2019-09-08 21:45:39Z

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using JSON.stringify automatically calls the .toJSON method of the Date object. What you should do to get your desired result is to cast the Date object to a string or just call the .toString method on the date object

String

data : JSON.stringify({
            'localCreatedDate' : String(new Date()), 
            'localUserAgent' : navigator.userAgent
       )});

toString

data : JSON.stringify({
            'localCreatedDate' : (new Date()).toString(), 
            'localUserAgent' : navigator.userAgent
       )});

answered Sep 8, 2019 at 21:45

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