I know, question is a bit old, but since am here looks like people are still looking for solutions.
I'll suggest you to use react-moment
link,
react-moment
comes with handy JSX
tags which reduce a lot of work. Like in your case :-
import React from 'react';
import Moment from 'react-moment';
exports default class MyComponent extends React.Component {
render() {
<Moment format="YYYY/MM/DD">{this.props.dateToFormat}</Moment>
}
}