How to get the day of week and the month of the year

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I don t know much about Javascript  and the other questions I found are related to operations on dates  not only getting the information as I need it   Objective  I wish to get the date as below-formatted      Printed on Thursday  27 January 2011 at 17 42 21   So far  I got the following   var now   new Date    var h   now getHours    var m   now getMinutes    var s   now getSeconds     h   checkTime h   m   checkTime m   s   checkTime s    var prnDt    Printed on Thursday      now getDate       January     now getFullYear       at     h         m       s    I now need to know how to get the day of week and the month of year  their names    Is there a simple way to make it  or shall I consider using arrays where I would simply index to the right value using now getMonth   and now getDay

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function currentDate           var monthNames      JANUARY    FEBRUARY    MARCH    APRIL    MAY    JUNE                         JULY    AUGUST    SEPTEMBER    OCTOBER    NOVEMBER    DECEMBER           var days     SUNDAY   MONDAY   TUESDAY   WEDNESDAY   THURSDAY   FRIDAY   SATURDAY                                 var today   new Date          var dd     today getDate          var mm     monthNames today getMonth            var yyyy   today getFullYear          var day    days today getDay           today    Date is      dd    -    mm    -    yyyy        document write today    lt br gt           document write  Day is       day          currentDate

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Unfortunately  Date object in javascript returns information about months only in numeric format  The faster thing you can do is to create an array of months  they are not supposed to change frequently   and create a function which returns the name based on the number   Something like this   function getMonthNameByMonthNumber mm        var months   new Array  January    February    March    April    May    June    July    August    September    October    November    December         return months mm        Your code therefore becomes   var prnDt    Printed on Thursday      now getDate           getMonthNameByMonthNumber now getMonth          now getFullYear       at     h         m       s

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One thing you can also do is Extend date object to return Weekday by   Date prototype getWeekDay   function         var weekday     Sunday    Monday    Tuesday    Wednesday    Thursday    Friday    Saturday        return weekday this getDay         so  you can only call date getWeekDay

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From https   developer mozilla org en-US docs Web JavaScript Reference Global Objects Date toLocaleDateString  The toLocaleDateString   method returns a string with a language sensitive representation of the date portion of this date  The new locales and options arguments let applications specify the language whose formatting conventions should be used and allow to customize the behavior of the function  In older implementations  which ignore the locales and options arguments  the locale used and the form of the string returned are entirely implementation dependent   Long form   const options     weekday   long     const date   new Date    console log date toLocaleDateString  en-US   options      One liner   console log new Date   toLocaleDateString  en-US     weekday   long         Note  there are other language options for locale  but the one presented here for for US English

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Write the Date   document write Date

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Use the standard javascript Date class  No need for arrays  No need for extra libraries   See https   developer mozilla org en docs Web JavaScript Reference Global Objects Date toLocaleDateString   x000D   x000D  var options      weekday   long   year   numeric   month   long   day   numeric   hour   2-digit   minute   2-digit   second   2-digit   hour12  false    x000D  var prnDt    Printed on     new Date   toLocaleTimeString  en-us   options   x000D   x000D  console log prnDt   x000D   x000D   x000D

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That s simple  You can set option to display only week days in toLocaleDateString   to get the names  For example    new Date    toLocaleDateString  en-US    weekday   long    will return only the day of the week  And  new Date    toLocaleDateString  en-US    month   long    will return only the month of the year

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Using http   phrogz net JS FormatDateTime JS txt you can just   var now   new Date  var prnDt   now customFormat   Printed on  DDDD    D   MMMM   YYYY  at  hhh   mm   ss

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As  L-Ray has already suggested  you can look into moment js as well Sample  x000D   x000D  var today   moment    var result       day  today format  dddd      month  today format  MMM      document write   lt pre gt     JSON stringify result 0 4      lt  pre gt     x000D   lt script src  https   cdnjs cloudflare com ajax libs moment js 2 13 0 moment min js  gt  lt  script gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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Yes  you ll need arrays   var days     Sunday   Monday   Tuesday   Wednesday   Thursday   Friday   Saturday    var months     January   February   March   April   May   June   July   August   September   October   November   December     var day   days  now getDay      var month   months  now getMonth        Or you can use the date js library     EDIT    If you re going to use these frequently  you may want to extend Date prototype for accessibility    function         var days     Sunday   Monday   Tuesday   Wednesday   Thursday   Friday   Saturday         var months     January   February   March   April   May   June   July   August   September   October   November   December         Date prototype getMonthName   function             return months  this getMonth                 Date prototype getDayName   function             return days  this getDay                    var now   new Date     var day   now getDayName    var month   now getMonthName

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var GetWeekDays   function  format        var weekDays            var curDate   new Date        for  var i   0  i  lt  7    i            weekDays curDate getDay      curDate toLocaleDateString  ru-RU                 weekday  format   format    short                       curDate setDate curDate getDate     1              return weekDays      me GetMonthNames   function  format        var monthNames            var curDate   new Date        for  var i   0  i  lt  12    i            monthNames curDate getMonth      curDate toLocaleDateString  ru-RU                 month  format   format    long                       curDate setMonth curDate getMonth     1              return monthNames

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You can look at datejs which parses the localized date output for example   The formatting may look like this  in your example   new Date   toString  dddd  d MMMM yyyy at HH mm ss

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