[javascript] How do I remove time part from JavaScript date?

I have a date '12/12/1955 12:00:00 AM' stored in a hidden column. I want to display the date without the time. How do I do this?

Parse that string into a Date object:

var myDate = new Date('10/11/1955 10:40:50 AM');

Then use the usual methods to get the date's day of month (getDate) / month (getMonth) / year (getFullYear).

var noTime = new Date(myDate.getFullYear(), myDate.getMonth(), myDate.getDate());

This is probably the easiest way:

new Date(<your-date-object>.toDateString());

Example: To get the Current Date without time component:

new Date(new Date().toDateString());

gives: Thu Jul 11 2019 00:00:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)

Note this works universally, because toDateString() produces date string with your browser's localization (without the time component), and the new Date() uses the same localization to parse that date string.

The previous answers are fine, just adding my preferred way of handling this:

var timePortion = myDate.getTime() % (3600 * 1000 * 24);
var dateOnly = new Date(myDate - timePortion);

If you start with a string, you first need to parse it like so:

var myDate = new Date(dateString);

And if you come across timezone related problems as I have, this should fix it:

var timePortion = (myDate.getTime() - myDate.getTimezoneOffset() * 60 * 1000) % (3600 * 1000 * 24);