date from string javascript code example

Example 1: javascript date to string

// There are two flavours
const event = new Date(1993, 6, 28, 14, 39, 7);

// The Old Skool Flava
console.log(event.toString());
// expected output: Wed Jul 28 1993 14:39:07 GMT+0200 (CEST)
// (note: your timezone may vary)

// The Hipster way ;)
console.log(event.toDateString());
// expected output: Wed Jul 28 1993

Example 2: timestamp to date javascript

let unix_timestamp = 1549312452
// Create a new JavaScript Date object based on the timestamp
// multiplied by 1000 so that the argument is in milliseconds, not seconds.
var date = new Date(unix_timestamp * 1000);
// Hours part from the timestamp
var hours = date.getHours();
// Minutes part from the timestamp
var minutes = "0" + date.getMinutes();
// Seconds part from the timestamp
var seconds = "0" + date.getSeconds();

// Will display time in 10:30:23 format
var formattedTime = hours + ':' + minutes.substr(-2) + ':' + seconds.substr(-2);

console.log(formattedTime);

Example 3: js string to date

var myDate = new Date("2013/1/16");

var str = "2013/1/16";
var strToDate = new Date(str);

Example 4: format date js

var options = { weekday: 'long', year: 'numeric', month: 'long', day: 'numeric' };
var today  = new Date();

console.log(today.toLocaleDateString("en-US")); // 9/17/2016
console.log(today.toLocaleDateString("en-US", options)); // Saturday, September 17, 2016

 // For custom format use
 date.toLocaleDateString("en-US", { day: 'numeric' })+ "-"+ date.toLocaleDateString("en-US", { month: 'short' })+ "-" + date.toLocaleDateString("en-US", { year: 'numeric' }) // 16-Nov-2019

Example 5: convert date to string javascript

var d = new Date();
  var n = d.toDateString();

Example 6: parse date from string in js

Date.parse(dateString)
//dateString is like 2020-10-10 / 2020-10-10T10:20:20