new date() javascript format code example

Example 1: javascript date format

const event = new Date(Date.UTC(2012, 11, 20, 3, 0, 0));

const options = {  year: 'numeric', month: 'short', day: 'numeric' };

console.log(event.toLocaleDateString('de-DE', options));
// expected output: Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2012

console.log(event.toLocaleDateString('en-US', options));
// US format 


// In case you only want the month
console.log(event.toLocaleDateString(undefined, { month: 'short'}));
console.log(event.toLocaleDateString(undefined, { month: 'long'}));

Example 2: javascript format date

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
console.log(today.toLocaleDateString("hi-IN", options));

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