jquery get date format 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: jquery format date

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('-');
 }
 alert(formatDate('05/08/2015'));

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: jquery date format

$.date = function(dateObject) {
    var d = new Date(dateObject);
    var day = d.getDate();
    var month = d.getMonth() + 1;
    var year = d.getFullYear();
    if (day < 10) {
        day = "0" + day;
    }
    if (month < 10) {
        month = "0" + month;
    }
    var date = day + "/" + month + "/" + year;

    return date;
};