format date from string js code example

Example 1: 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 2: format date js

const t = new Date();
const date = ('0' + t.getDate()).slice(-2);
const month = ('0' + (t.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2);
const year = t.getFullYear();
const hours = ('0' + t.getHours()).slice(-2);
const minutes = ('0' + t.getMinutes()).slice(-2);
const seconds = ('0' + t.getSeconds()).slice(-2);
const time = `${date}/${month}/${year}, ${hours}:${minutes}:${seconds}`;

output: "27/04/2020, 12:03:03"

Example 3: date to string format javascript

function formatDate(date) {
    var d = new Date(date),
        month = '' + (d.getMonth() + 1),
        day = '' + d.getDate(),
        year = d.getFullYear();

    if (month.length < 2) 
        month = '0' + month;
    if (day.length < 2) 
        day = '0' + day;

    return [year, month, day].join('-');
}
 
console.log(formatDate('Sun May 11,2014'));