[javascript] Convert date from 'Thu Jun 09 2011 00:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)' to 'YYYY-MM-DD' in javascript

How can I convert the time from the format "Thu Jun 09 2011 00:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)" to YYYY-MM-DD.

When I try to alert() the date then this will show the date like the following - Thu Jun 09 2011 00:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)

But I need the time in YYYY-MM-DD format.

Are there any built function to convert?

function convert(str) {
    var date = new Date(str),
        mnth = ("0" + (date.getMonth()+1)).slice(-2),
        day  = ("0" + date.getDate()).slice(-2);
        hours  = ("0" + date.getHours()).slice(-2);
        minutes = ("0" + date.getMinutes()).slice(-2);
    return [ date.getFullYear(), mnth, day, hours, minutes ].join("-");
}

I used this efficiently in angular because i was losing two hours on updating a $scope.STARTevent, and $scope.ENDevent, IN console.log was fine, however saving to mYsql dropped two hours.

var whatSTART = $scope.STARTevent;
whatSTART = convert(whatever);

THIS WILL ALSO work for END

 function convertDatePickerTimeToMySQLTime(str) {
        var month, day, year, hours, minutes, seconds;
        var date = new Date(str),
            month = ("0" + (date.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2),
            day = ("0" + date.getDate()).slice(-2);
        hours = ("0" + date.getHours()).slice(-2);
        minutes = ("0" + date.getMinutes()).slice(-2);
        seconds = ("0" + date.getSeconds()).slice(-2);

        var mySQLDate = [date.getFullYear(), month, day].join("-");
        var mySQLTime = [hours, minutes, seconds].join(":");
        return [mySQLDate, mySQLTime].join(" ");
    }

The easiest way for me to convert a date was to stringify it then slice it.

var event = new Date("Fri Apr 05 2019 16:59:00 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)");

let date = JSON.stringify(event)
date = date.slice(1,11)

// console.log(date) = '2019-04-05'

Above solutions will work only if its a string. Input type date, gives you output in javascript date object in some cases like if you use angular or so. That's why some people are getting error like "TypeError: str.split is not a function". It's a date object, so you should use functions of Date object in javascript to manipulate it. Example here:

var date = $scope.dateObj ; 
//dateObj is data bind to the ng-modal of input type dat.
console.log(date.getFullYear()); //this will give you full year eg : 1990
console.log(date.getDate()); //gives you the date from 1 to 31
console.log(date.getMonth() + 1); //getMonth will give month from 0 to 11 

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