date 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: 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 3: javascript date format mm/dd/yyyy

var date_format = new Date();

document.write(innerHTML = date_format.getMonth()+'/'+ date_format.getDate()+'/'+date_format.getFullYear());

Example 4: javascript date format

const d = new Date('2010-08-05')
const ye = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en', { year: 'numeric' }).format(d)
const mo = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en', { month: 'short' }).format(d)
const da = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en', { day: '2-digit' }).format(d)

console.log(`${da}-${mo}-${ye}`)

Example 5: javascript full date as string

<p>The toDateString() method converts a date to a date string:</p>

<p id="demo"></p>

<script>
var d = new Date();
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = d.toDateString();
</script>
//output: Fri Oct 16 2020

Example 6: javascript date format

Modern JavaScript date utility library https://date-fns.org/
date-fns provides the most comprehensive, yet simple and consistent toolset for manipulating JavaScript dates in a browser & Node.js.