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How to format a JavaScript date?

function formatDate(date) {
  var monthNames = [
    "January", "February", "March",
    "April", "May", "June", "July",
    "August", "September", "October",
    "November", "December"
  ];

  var day = date.getDate();
  var monthIndex = date.getMonth();
  var year = date.getFullYear();

  return day + ' ' + monthNames[monthIndex] + ' ' + year;
}

console.log(formatDate(new Date()));  // show current date-time in console

Use the date.format library :

var dateFormat = require('dateformat');
var now = new Date();
dateFormat(now, "dddd, mmmm dS, yyyy, h:MM:ss TT");

returns:

Saturday, June 9th, 2007, 5:46:21 PM 

var today = new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 10);

sing this function instead:

function toJSONLocal (date) {
    var local = new Date(date);
    local.setMinutes(date.getMinutes() - date.getTimezoneOffset());
    return local.toJSON().slice(0, 10);
}

var d = new Date();

var datestring = d.getDate()  + "-" + (d.getMonth()+1) + "-" + d.getFullYear() + " " +
d.getHours() + ":" + d.getMinutes();

// 16-5-2015 9:50

Use toLocaleDateString();

The toLocaleDateString() method returns a string with a language-sensitive representation of the date portion of the date. The locales and options arguments let applications specify the language whose formatting conventions should be used and allow to customize the behavior of the function.

The values you can passed in options for different keys:

day:

The representation of the day. Possible values are "numeric", "2-digit".

weekday:

year:

month:

hour:

minute:

second:

All these keys are optional.You can change the number of options values based on your requirements.

For different languages:

You can use more language options.

For example

var options = { weekday: 'long', year: 'numeric', month: 'long', day: 'numeric' };
var today  = new Date();

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

// Outputs will be -
9/17/2016
Saturday, September 17, 2016