How do I get the current date in JavaScript

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You can checkout this var today   new Date    today   parseInt today getMonth   1      today getDate       today getFullYear    quot  nTime    quot  today getHours    quot   quot  today getMinutes    quot   quot  today getSeconds    document write today    And see the documentation for Date   constructor  link Get Current Date Month Year in React js

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UPDATED   Scroll Down   If you want something simple pretty to the end-user     Also  fixed a small suffix issue in the first version below  Now properly returns suffix    x000D   x000D  var objToday   new Date    x000D   weekday   new Array  Sunday    Monday    Tuesday    Wednesday    Thursday    Friday    Saturday    x000D   dayOfWeek   weekday objToday getDay     x000D   domEnder   function     var a   objToday  if   1  test parseInt  a       charAt 0     return  th   a   parseInt  a       charAt 1    return 1    a    st    2    a    nd    3    a    rd     th       x000D   dayOfMonth   today     objToday getDate    lt  10     0    objToday getDate     domEnder   objToday getDate     domEnder  x000D   months   new Array  January    February    March    April    May    June    July    August    September    October    November    December    x000D   curMonth   months objToday getMonth     x000D   curYear   objToday getFullYear    x000D   curHour   objToday getHours    gt  12   objToday getHours   - 12    objToday getHours    lt  10    0    objToday getHours     objToday getHours     x000D   curMinute   objToday getMinutes    lt  10    0    objToday getMinutes     objToday getMinutes    x000D   curSeconds   objToday getSeconds    lt  10    0    objToday getSeconds     objToday getSeconds    x000D   curMeridiem   objToday getHours    gt  12    PM     AM   x000D  var today   curHour         curMinute         curSeconds   curMeridiem         dayOfWeek         dayOfMonth     of     curMonth          curYear  x000D   x000D  document getElementsByTagName  h1   0  textContent   today  x000D   lt h1 gt  lt  h1 gt  x000D   x000D   x000D       UBBER UPDATE After much procrastination  I ve finally GitHubbed and updated this with the final solution I ve been using for myself  It s even had some last-minute edits to make it sweeter  If you re looking for the old jsFiddle  please see this    This update comes in 2 flavors  still relatively small  though not as small as my above  original answer  If you want extremely small  go with that   Also Note  This is still less bloated than moment js  While moment js is nice  imo  it has too many secular methods  which require learning moment as if it were a language  Mine here uses the same common format as PHP  date   Quick Links   Date format min js 5 08 KB dateFormat min js 4 16 KB      Flavor 1 new Date   format String    My Personal Fav  I know the taboo but works great on the Date Object  Just be aware of any other mods you may have to the Date Object        use as simple as new Date   format  m-d-Y h i s          07-06-2016 06 38 34      Flavor 2 dateFormat Date  String    More traditional all-in-one method  Has all the ability of the previous  but is called via the method with Date param        use as simple as dateFormat new Date     m-d-Y h i s         07-06-2016 06 38 34      BONUS Flavor  requires jQuery    date Date  String    This contains much more than just a simple format option  It extends the base Date object and includes methods such as addDays  For more information  please see the Git    In this mod  the format characters are inspired by PHP  date  For a complete list  please see my README  This mod also has a much longer list of pre-made formats  To use a premade format  simply enter its key name  dateFormat new Date     pretty-a       compound     commonLogFormat      d M Y G i s   exif      Y m d G i s   isoYearWeek      Y  WW   isoYearWeek2      Y-  WW   isoYearWeekDay      Y  WWj   isoYearWeekDay2      Y-  WW-j   mySQL      Y-m-d h i s   postgreSQL      Y z   postgreSQL2      Yz   soap      Y-m-d  TH i s u   soap2      Y-m-d  TH i s uP   unixTimestamp       U   xmlrpc      Ymd  TG i s   xmlrpcCompact      Ymd  tGis   wddx      Y-n-j  TG i s    constants     AMERICAN      F j Y   AMERICANSHORT      m d Y   AMERICANSHORTWTIME      m d Y h i sA   ATOM      Y-m-d  TH i sP   COOKIE      l d-M-Y H i s T   EUROPEAN      j F Y   EUROPEANSHORT      d m Y   EUROPEANSHORTWTIME      d m Y H i s   ISO8601      Y-m-d  TH i sO   LEGAL      j F Y   RFC822      D d M y H i s O   RFC850      l d-M-y H i s T   RFC1036      D d M y H i s O   RFC1123      D d M Y H i s O   RFC2822      D d M Y H i s O   RFC3339      Y-m-d  TH i sP   RSS      D d M Y H i s O   W3C      Y-m-d  TH i sP    pretty     pretty-a      g i sA l jS   o  f F Y   pretty-b      g iA l jS   o  f F Y   pretty-c      n d Y g iA   pretty-d      n d Y   pretty-e      F jS - g ia   pretty-f      g iA     As you may notice  you can use double   to escape a character

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Try     Date     slice 4 15     x000D   x000D  console log     Date     slice 4 15    x000D   x000D   x000D    We use here standard JS functionalities  template literals  Date object which is cast to string  and slice  This is probably shortest solution which meet OP requirements  no time  only date

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If you re looking for a lot more granular control over the date formats  I thoroughly recommend  checking out momentjs  Terrific library - and only 5KB  http   momentjs com

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You can use moment js  http   momentjs com    x000D   x000D  var m   moment   format  DD MM YYYY    x000D   x000D  document write m   x000D   lt script src  https   cdnjs cloudflare com ajax libs moment js 2 14 1 moment min js  gt  lt  script gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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This is my current favorite  because it s both flexible and modular  It s a collection of  at least  three simple functions          Returns an array with date   time information    Starts with year at index 0 up to index 6 for milliseconds         param  Date  date   date object  If falsy  will take current time      returns          getDateArray   function date        date   date    new Date        return           date getFullYear            exports pad date getMonth   1  2           exports pad date getDate    2           exports pad date getHours    2           exports pad date getMinutes    2           exports pad date getSeconds    2           exports pad date getMilliseconds    2              Here s the pad function           Pad a number with n digits        param  number  number   number to pad     param  number  digits   number of total digits     returns  string      exports pad   function pad number  digits        return new Array Math max digits - String number  length   1  0   join 0    number       Finally I can either build my date string by hand  or use a simple functions to do it for me          Returns nicely formatted date-time     example 2015-02-10 16 01 12        param  object  date     returns  string      exports niceDate   function date        var d   exports getDateArray date       return d 0     -    d 1     -    d 2          d 3          d 4          d 5              Returns a formatted date-time  optimized for machines     example 2015-02-10 16-00-08        param  object  date     returns  string      exports roboDate   function date        var d   exports getDateArray date       return d 0     -    d 1     -    d 2          d 3     -    d 4     -    d 5

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new Date   toISOString   slice 0 10      would work too

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You can use Date js library which extens Date object  thus you can have  today   method

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new Date   toDateString      Result       Wed Feb 03 2016

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As toISOString   will only return current UTC time   not local time  We have to make a date by using   toString    function to get date in yyyy-MM-dd format like   x000D   x000D  document write new Date new Date   toString   split  GMT   0    UTC   toISOString   split  T   0    x000D   x000D   x000D    To get date and time into in yyyy-MM-ddTHH mm ss format   x000D   x000D  document write new Date new Date   toString   split  GMT   0    UTC   toISOString   split      0    x000D   x000D   x000D    To get date and time into in yyyy-MM-dd HH mm ss format   x000D   x000D  document write new Date new Date   toString   split  GMT   0    UTC   toISOString   split      0  replace  T         x000D   x000D   x000D

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My solution uses string literal Find out more      x000D   x000D     Declare Date as d x000D  var d   new Date   x000D   x000D     Inline formatting of Date x000D  const exampleOne      d getDay   -  d getMonth     1 -  d getFullYear     x000D     January is 0 so  1 is required x000D   x000D     With Breaklines and Operators x000D  const exampleTwo                x000D  With Break Lines and Arithmetic Operators Example x000D  Year on newline    d getFullYear    x000D  Year minus -  30 years    d getFullYear   - 30  x000D  You get the idea    x000D               x000D   x000D  console log                  x000D  console log exampleOne  x000D  console log                  x000D   x000D  console log exampleTwo  x000D   x000D   x000D

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This may help you  var date   new Date    console log date getDate        date getMonth   1      date getFullYear       This will print current date in dd MM yyyy format

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If you are happy with YYYY-MM-DD format  this will do the job as well   new Date   toISOString   split  T   0   2018-03-10

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This does a lot   x000D   x000D      var today   new Date        var date   today getFullYear        today getMonth   1      today getDate        document write date   x000D   x000D   x000D   Where today getFullYear   gets current year  today getMonth   1 gets current month and today getDate   gets today s date  All of this is concatinated with

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If you only require the string representation  then simply use   Date

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TL DR Most of the answers found here are correct only if you need the current time that s on your local machine  client  which is a source that often cannot be considered reliable  it will probably differ from another system   Reliable sources are   Web server s clock  but make sure that it s updated  Time APIs  amp  CDNs  Details A method called on the Date instance will return a value based on the local time of your machine  Further details can be found in  quot MDN web docs quot   JavaScript Date object  For your convenience  I ve added a relevant note from their docs         the basic methods to fetch the date and time or its components all work in the local  i e  host system  time zone and offset   Another source mentioning this is  JavaScript date and time object  it is important to note that if someone s clock is off by a few hours or they are in a different time zone  then the Date object will create a different times from the one created on your own computer   Some reliable sources that you can use are   Your web server s clock  first check if it s properly set  Time APIs  amp  CDNs   https   timezonedb com api http   worldtimeapi org http   worldclockapi com http   www geonames org export ws-overview html Other related APIs  https   www programmableweb com category time api    But if accuracy is not important for your use case or if you simply need the date to be relative to local machine s time then you can safely use Javascript s Date basic methods like Date now

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If you want a simple DD MM YYYY format  I ve just come up with this simple solution  although it doesn t prefix missing zeros    x000D   x000D  var d   new Date    x000D  document write   d getDate    d getMonth   1  d getFullYear    join         x000D   x000D   x000D

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x000D   x000D  var d    new Date    toString   split      splice 1 3  join       x000D   x000D  document write d  x000D   x000D   x000D    To break it down into steps     new Date    toString   gives  Fri Jun 28 2013 15 30 18 GMT-0700  PDT    new Date    toString   split      divides the above string on each space and returns an array as follows    Fri    Jun    28    2013    15 31 14    GMT-0700     PDT     new Date    toString   split      splice 1 3  join      takes the second  third and fourth values from the above array  joins them with spaces  and returns a string  Jun 28 2013

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2 39KB minified  One file  https   github com rhroyston clock-js  Just trying to help

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For anyone looking for a date format like this 09-Apr-2020  function getDate      var months     Jan    Feb    Mar    Apr    May    Jun    Jul    Aug    Sep    Oct    Nov    Dec      var today   new Date      var dd      String today getDate    padStart 2   0      var mm      months today getMonth       var yyyy    today getFullYear       today   dd    -    mm    -    yyyy    return today     getDate

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var dateTimeToday   new Date    var dateToday   new Date      dateTimeToday getFullYear          dateTimeToday getMonth     1    Jan   0           dateTimeToday getDate         0       0       0       0

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Cleaner  simpler version   new Date   toLocaleString      Result varies according to the user s locale      2 27 2017  9 15 41 AM

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x000D   x000D  var utc   new Date   toJSON   slice 0 10  replace  - g       x000D  document write utc   x000D   x000D   x000D    Use the replace option if you re going to reuse the utc variable  such as new Date utc   as Firefox and Safari don t recognize a date with dashes

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The basics  If you re happy with the format Sun Jan 24 2016 21 23 07 GMT 0100  CET   you could just use this code    var today   new Date      Date prototype toLocaleDateString    If you want to format your output  consider using Date prototype toLocaleDateString      var today   new Date   toLocaleDateString  de-DE              weekday   long        year   numeric       month   long       day   numeric        If you executed that code today  january 24    2016  on a modern browser  it would produce the string Sonntag  24  Januar 2016  Older browsers may generate a different result  though  as eg  IE lt 11 doesn t support locales or options arguments   Going custom  If Date prototype toLocaleDateString   isn t flexible enough to fulfill whatever need you may have  you might want to consider creating a custom Date object that looks like this    var DateObject    function         var monthNames            January    February    March          April    May    June    July          August    September    October          November    December             var date   function str            this set str              date prototype             set   function str                var dateDef   str   new Date str    new Date                this day   dateDef getDate                this dayPadded    this day  lt  10      0    this day         this day              this month   dateDef getMonth     1              this monthPadded    this month  lt  10      0    this month         this month              this monthName   monthNames this month - 1               this year   dateDef getFullYear                         return date          If you included that code and executed new DateObject   today  january 24    2016   it would produce an object with the following properties    day  24 dayPadded   24  month  1 monthPadded   01  monthName   January  year  2016

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You can get the current date call the static method now like this   var now   Date now     reference   https   developer mozilla org en docs Web JavaScript Reference Global Objects Date now

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With ability to render in custom format and using month name in different locales   const locale    en-us   const d   new Date date    const day   d getDate    const month   d toLocaleString locale    month   long      const year   d getFullYear     const time   d toLocaleString locale    hour12  false  hour   numeric   minute   numeric      return    month    day     year      time       May 5  2019   23 41

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Use new Date   to generate a new Date object containing the current date and time    x000D   x000D  var today   new Date    x000D  var dd   String today getDate    padStart 2   0    x000D  var mm   String today getMonth     1  padStart 2   0      January is 0  x000D  var yyyy   today getFullYear    x000D   x000D  today   mm         dd         yyyy  x000D  document write today   x000D   x000D   x000D    This will give you today s date in the format of mm dd yyyy   Simply change today   mm       dd       yyyy  to whatever format you wish

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To get just the date then it is built in to javascript   new Date      If you are looking for date formatting and you are anyways using the Kendo JQuery UI library for your site then I suggest using the built in kendo function   kendo toString new Date     yyMMdd      or any other typical date format   For a full list of supported formats see here

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Using JS built in Date prototype toLocaleDateString   From MDN docs  https   developer mozilla org en-US docs Web JavaScript Reference Global Objects Date toLocaleDateString  x000D   x000D  const options        month   2-digit      day   2-digit     year   numeric        console log new Date   toLocaleDateString  en-US   options       mm dd yyyy x000D   x000D   x000D

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I think this is an old question but the easiest way would be the following   var date   new Date    var TimeStamp   date toLocaleString     function CurrentTime      alert TimeStamp       This will grab the current time  pass it to a string based on location and then you can call the function CurrentTime to display the time   This would be  to me  the most effective way to get a time stamp for something

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Try This and you can adjust date formate accordingly          var today   new Date        var dd   today getDate        var mm   today getMonth     1      var yyyy   today getFullYear        if  dd  lt  10            dd    0    dd            if  mm  lt  10            mm    0    mm         var myDate  dd    -    mm    -    yyyy

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Pretty Print The Date Like This      June 1st  2015 11 36 48 AM   https   gist github com Gerst20051 7d72693f722bbb0f6b58

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function     var d   new Date    return new Date d - d   86400000

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You can use this   lt script gt  function my curr date               var currentDate   new Date       var day   currentDate getDate        var month   currentDate getMonth     1      var year   currentDate getFullYear        var my date   month  -  day  -  year      document getElementById  dateField   value my date         lt  script gt    The HTML is   lt body onload  return my curr date     gt       lt input type  text  name  dateField  id  dateField  value      gt   lt  body gt

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If you just want a date without time info  use    x000D   x000D  var today   new Date    x000D      today setHours 0  0  0  0   x000D   x000D  document write today   x000D   x000D   x000D

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This answer is for people looking for a date with ISO-8601 like format and with the timezone  It s pure JS for those who don t want to include any date library         var date   new Date          var timeZone   date toString            Get timezone    GMT 0200          var timeZoneIndex   timeZone indexOf  GMT            Cut optional string after timezone     heure de Paris           var optionalTimeZoneIndex   timeZone indexOf             if optionalTimeZoneIndex    -1             timeZone   timeZone substring timeZoneIndex  optionalTimeZoneIndex                 else            timeZone   timeZone substring timeZoneIndex                   Get date with JSON format    2019-01-23T16 28 27 000Z          var formattedDate   new Date date getTime   -  date getTimezoneOffset     60000   toJSON            Cut ms       formattedDate   formattedDate substring 0 formattedDate indexOf                Add timezone       formattedDate   formattedDate         timeZone        console log formattedDate     Print something like this in the console       2019-01-23T17 12 52 GMT 0100    JSFiddle   https   jsfiddle net n9mszhjc 4

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Varun s answer does not account for TimezoneOffset  Here is a version that does   var d   new Date   new Date d getTime   - d getTimezoneOffset     60000  toJSON   slice 0  10     2015-08-11   The TimezoneOffset is minutes  while the Date constructor takes milliseconds  thus the multiplication by 60000

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You can get by using new Date   to the current browser date in JavaScript    But currently we have a good plugin for Parse  validate  manipulate  and display dates and times in JavaScript by using moment js

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Date prototype toLocalFullDateStringYYYYMMDDHHMMSS   function      if  this    null  amp  amp  this    undefined        let str   this getFullYear        str     quot - quot    round this getMonth     1       str     quot - quot    round this getDate         str     quot T quot       str    round this getHours         str     quot   quot    round this getMinutes         str     quot   quot    round this getSeconds         return str    else       return this     function round n       if n  lt  10           return  quot 0 quot    n            else return n

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If you re looking for a lot more granular control over the date formats  I thoroughly recommend checking out date-FNS  Terrific library - much smaller than moment js and it s function based approach make it much faster then other class based libraries  Provide large number of operations needed over dates    https   date-fns org docs Getting-Started

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Most of the other answers are providing the date with time  If you only need date  new Date   toISOString   split  quot T quot   0   Output    2021-02-08    06 07 44 629Z     If you want it in   format use replace  If you want other formats then best to use momentjs

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You can use my DATE API given below for everyday use of date formatting along with getting current date  yesterday etc   How to use    e g     var dt   new Date                 ANY DATE YOU WANT --  dt   new Date   July 21  1983 01 15 00            dateObj   dt getFormattedDate            alert  dateObj isToday             alert  dateObj todayDay             alert  dateObj monthNameDayYear           function           fnDateProcessor   function              var that   this           return                yyyymmdd  function  separator                    var fdate   this formatDate true  true                        separator   separator   separator    -                   return fdate year   separator   fdate month   separator   fdate day                              monthNameDayYear  function                      var fdate   this formatDate true  true                   return fdate monthName         fdate day          fdate year                              ddmmyyyy  function  separator                    var fdate   this formatDate true  true                        separator   separator   separator                        return fdate day   separator   fdate month   separator   fdate year                              meridianTime  function                      var fdate   this formatDate                    return fdate hour         fdate minute         fdate meridian                              monthDay  function  separator                     var fdate   this formatDate                    separator   checkSeparator separator                   return fdate monthName substring 0  3    separator   fdate day                               weekMonthDayYear  function                      var fdate   this formatDate                      separator   checkSeparator separator                    return fdate weekDay         fdate monthName substring 0  3                        fdate day          fdate year                              timeZoneInclusive  function                       return new Date that                               todayDay  function      return new Date   getDate                   todayMonth  function      return new Date   getMonth     1                 dateDay  function      return this formatDate   day                 dateMonth  function      return this formatDate   month                 isToday  function      return this sameDate new Date                    isYesterday  function                      d   new Date    d setDate d getDate   - 1                   return this sameDate d                               formatDate  function                      var zeroPaddedMnth   true  zeroPaddedDay   false                      zeroPaddedHr   false  zeroPaddedMin   true                     Possible to take Options arg that overide   merge to defaults                  var monthNames                          January    February    March                        April    May    June    July                        August    September    October                        November    December                                     var weekDays     Sunday    Monday    Tuesday    Wednesday    Thursday    Friday    Saturday                     var day   getFormattedDay that getDate    zeroPaddedDay                   var monthIndex   that getMonth                    var month   getFormattedMonth monthIndex   1  zeroPaddedMnth                   var year   that getFullYear                    var wkDay   that getDay                    var hour   getFormattedHour that getHours    zeroPaddedHr                   var minute   getFormattedMinute that getMinutes    zeroPaddedMin                   var meridian   getMeridian that getHours                      return                        day   day   monthName   monthNames monthIndex    month   month                       weekDay   weekDays wkDay    year   year   hour   hour   minute   minute                       meridian   meridian                                                compareDate  function  d2            validates if caller is less than argument                                             d2    isString d2    new Date d2    d2                   return  this sameDate d2                       amp  amp  typeof d2     number                        that  lt  d2   false                              sameDate  function  d                    return that getFullYear       d getFullYear                        amp  amp  that getDate       d getDate                        amp  amp  that getMonth       d getMonth                                dateAfter  function  separator                    var fdate   this formatDate                    var separator   separator   separator    -                   return fdate year   separator   fdate month   separator    fdate day   1                                           function  isString obj            var toString   Object prototype toString          return toString call obj       object String               function checkSeparator separator               NOT GENERIC     NEEDS REVISION         switch  separator                case      sep   separator  break              case      sep         break              default                  sep        break                     return sep             function getFormattedHour h  zeroPadded            h   h   12          h   h   h   12         12 instead of 00         return zeroPadded   addZero h    h             function getFormattedMinute m  zeroPadded             return zeroPadded   addZero m    m             function getFormattedDay dd  zeroPadded             return zeroPadded   addZero dd    dd            function getFormattedMonth mm  zeroPadded             return zeroPadded   addZero mm    mm             function getMeridian hr             return hr  gt   12    PM     AM              function addZero i            if  i  lt  10                i    0    i                    return i              Date prototype getFormattedDate   fnDateProcessor

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If you are using jQuery  Try this one liner      datepicker formatDate  dd mm yy   new Date       Here is the convention for formatting the date    d - day of month  no leading zero  dd - day of month  two digit  o - day of the year  no leading zeros  oo - day of the year  three digit  D - day name short DD - day name long m - month of year  no leading zero  mm - month of year  two digit  M - month name short MM - month name long y - year  two digit  yy - year  four digit    Here is the reference for jQuery datepicker

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LATEST EDIT  8 23 19 The date-fns library works much like moment js but has a WAY smaller footprint  It lets you cherry pick which functions you want to include in your project so you don t have to compile the whole library to format today s date  If a minimal 3rd party lib isn t an option for your project  I endorse the accepted solution by Samuel Meddows up top   Preserving history below because it helped a few people  But for the record it s pretty hacky and liable to break without warning  as are most of the solutions on this post  EDIT 2 7 2017 A one-line JS solution       tl dr   var todaysDate    new Date Date now    toLocaleString   slice 0 3  match   0-9  i    new Date Date now    toLocaleString   split      0  split      0    new Date Date now    toLocaleString   split      1          new Date Date now    toLocaleString   split      2          new Date Date now    toLocaleString   split      3     edge  ff latest   amp  chrome return todaysDate    2 7 2017   works   in IE10    Explanation  I found out that IE10 and IE Edge do things a bit differently   go figure  with new Date Date now    toLocaleString   as input   IE10 returns     Tuesday  February 07  2017 2 58 25 PM    I could write a big long function and FTFY  But you really ought to use moment js for this stuff  My script merely cleans this up and gives you the expanded traditional US notation   gt  todaysDate    March 06  2017   IE EDGE returns     2   7   2017   2   59   27   PM    Of course it couldn t be that easy  Edge s date string has invisible       characters between each visible one  So not only will we now be checking if the first character is a number  but the first 3 characters  since it turns out that any single character in the whole date range  will eventually be a dot or a slash at some point  So to keep things simple  just  slice   the first three chars  tiny buffer against future shenanigans  and then check for numbers  It should probably be noted that these invisible dots could potentially persist in your code  I d maybe dig into that if you ve got bigger plans than just printing this string to your view     updated one-liner   var todaysDate    new Date Date now    toLocaleString   slice 0 3  match   0-9  i    new Date Date now    toLocaleString   split      0  split      0    new Date Date now    toLocaleString   split      1          new Date Date now    toLocaleString   split      2          new Date Date now    toLocaleString   split      3     That sucks to read  How about   var dateString    new Date Date now    toLocaleString    var todaysDate    dateString slice 0 3  match   0-9  i    dateString split      0  split      0    dateString split      1          dateString split      2          dateString split      3     ORIGINAL ANSWER  I ve got a one-liner for you   new Date Date now    toLocaleString   split       0     and  1  will give you the time of day

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Try this    x000D   x000D  var currentDate   new Date   x000D  var day   currentDate getDate   x000D  var month   currentDate getMonth     1 x000D  var year   currentDate getFullYear   x000D  document write   lt b gt     day         month         year     lt  b gt    x000D   x000D   x000D    The result will be like  15 2 2012

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The shortest possible    To get format like  2018-08-03     x000D   x000D  let today   new Date   toISOString   slice 0  10  x000D   x000D  console log today  x000D   x000D   x000D    To get format like  8 3 2018     x000D   x000D  let today   new Date   toLocaleDateString   x000D   x000D  console log today  x000D   x000D   x000D    Also  you can pass locale as argument  for example toLocaleDateString  sr    etc

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This works every time    x000D   x000D      var now   new Date    x000D      var day     0    now getDate    slice -2   x000D      var month     0     now getMonth     1   slice -2   x000D      var today   now getFullYear      -     month     -     day   x000D       x000D      console log today   x000D   x000D   x000D

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What s the big deal with this     The cleanest way to do this is   var currentDate new Date   toLocaleString   slice 0 10

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So many complicated answers    Just use new Date   and if you need it as a string  simply use new Date   toISOString   Enjoy

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A straighforward way to pull that off  whilst considering your current time zone it taking advantage of the ISO yyyy-mm-dd format  is   let d   new Date   toISOString   substring 0 19  replace  T           2020-02-18 16 41 58    Usually  this is a pretty all-purpose compatible date format and you can convert it to pure date value if needed   Date parse d      1582044297000

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If by  current date  you are thinking about  today   then this trick may work for you    gt  new Date 3600000 Math floor Date now   3600000   2020-05-07T07 00 00 000Z   This way you are getting today Date instance with time 0 00 00   The principle of operation is very simple  we take the current timestamp and divide it for 1 day expressed in milliseconds  We will get a fraction  By using Math floor  we get rid of the fraction  so we get an integer  Now if we multiply it back by one day  again - in milliseconds   we get a date timestamp with the time exactly at the beginning of the day    gt  now   Date now   1588837459929  gt  daysInMs   now 3600000 441343 73886916664  gt  justDays   Math floor daysInMs  441343  gt  today   justDays 3600000 1588834800000  gt  new Date today  2020-05-07T07 00 00 000Z   Clean and simple

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The Shortest Answer is  new Date   toJSON   slice 0 10

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var date   new Date   toLocaleDateString  en-US      Also  you can call method toLocaleDateString with two parameters   var date   new Date   toLocaleDateString  en-US          year    numeric        month    numeric        Article on MSDN  More about this method on MDN

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If your looking to format into a string   statusUpdate    time     new Date Date now    toLocaleTimeString      output  time 11 30 53 AM

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This is good to get formatted date    x000D   x000D  let date   new Date   toLocaleDateString  en    year  numeric   day  2-digit   month  2-digit     x000D  console log date   x000D   x000D   x000D

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