JS - How to get and calculate the current date

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Sorry, but what is the fastest way to display the current date?

 2014-01-18 Saturday 12:30

with this function or how do it the right way?

 var d=new Date();
 var t=d.getTime();

Also, look at Where can I find documentation on formatting a date in JavaScript — Givi
– Givi, Commented Jan 18, 2014 at 11:37

laaposto · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-18 11:34:19Z

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Try

var d = new Date();
var dd = d.getDate();
var mm = d.getMonth()+1; //January is 0!
var yy = d.getFullYear();

var weekday=new Array(7);
weekday[0]="Sunday";
weekday[1]="Monday";
weekday[2]="Tuesday";
weekday[3]="Wednesday";
weekday[4]="Thursday";
weekday[5]="Friday";
weekday[6]="Saturday";

var day=weekday[d.getDay()];

var h = d.getHours();
    var m = d.getMinutes();

alert(yy+"-"+mm+"-"+dd+" "+day+" "+h+":"+m)

DEMO

answered Jan 18, 2014 at 11:34

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Vivek · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-18 11:30:20Z

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var d =  new Date();
alert(d.toString());

answered Jan 18, 2014 at 11:30

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Oriol Over a year ago

Just a note: there's no need to explicitly use .toString()

Vivek Over a year ago

true but here I have just given .toString() for to be in safe side. I assumed there would be further operations on the variable like storing in some other variable or smthing.... So depends on the use case

Oriol · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-18 11:34:48Z

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If you don't mind the format, you can do it in one line:

''+new Date()

You only need to use a Date object as a string, in order to implicitly call its .toString() method, which

returns a String value. The contents of the String are implementation-dependent, but are intended to represent the Date in the current time zone in a convenient, human-readable form.

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franco · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-18 11:43:01Z

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new Date().toGMTString()

It's something similar to what you are looking for

If you want complicate the output you can get element by element and format yourself the date (or you can use Globalize.js)

answered Jan 18, 2014 at 11:43

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