Formatting-date in JavaScript date-month-year
- JavaScript has an inbuilt support for dates and times with its Date object.
- The methods of the Date object return various values associated with date and time.
- To start working with dates and time, we first need to initialize a variable and assign it a value with the new operator and the Date() constructor.
- The main function of the new operator with Date() constructor is to create a new date object that is stored in the variable.
Syntax :
var d = new Date();
- Thus, variable d contains a new date object. We can now call the various methods of this date object.
date-month-year :
- The three methods that we would be using are:
- getDate(): Returns the date.
- getMonth(): Returns the month.
- getFullYear(): Returns the year.
Sample Code :
<html>
<head>
<title> Formatting-date </title>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
var d = new Date();
var curr_date = d.getDate();
var curr_month = d.getMonth();
var curr_year = d.getFullYear();
document.write(curr_date + "-" + curr_month + "-" + curr_year);
</script>
</body>
</html>
Code Explanation :
Here
<script type="text/javascript"> is specifies the type attribute of the Internet media type (formerly known as MIME type) of a script. "text/javascript” specifies the media type.
Over here var d = new Date () specifies a variable d that contains a new date object. We can now call the various methods of this date object.
var curr_date = d.getDate() it return the current day of the month.
var curr_month = d.getMonth() specifies The getMonth() method tahtreturns the month (from 0 to 11) for the specified date, according to local time.
var curr_year = d.getFullYear() specifies these method that returns the year (four digits for dates between year 1000 and 9999) of the specified date.
document.write(curr_date + "-" + curr_month + "-" + curr_year); - over here document.write specifies the write() method writes JavaScript code to a document. And (curr_date + "-" + curr_month + "-" + curr_year) returns the current date – month-year in this format.
</script> defines the end of script tag inthe sample code.
Sample Output :
Here in this output we display the 30-4-2016 which specifies the previous date-month-year in the format.
The corrected lines of code are:
<html>
<head>
<title> Formatting-date </title>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
var d = new Date();
var curr_date = d.getDate();
var curr_month = d.getMonth()+ 1;
var curr_year = d.getFullYear();
document.write(curr_date + "-" + curr_month + "-" + curr_year);
</script>
</body>
</html> - In the code above, we have a different variable (curr_date,curr_month,curr_year) for the date, month and year.
- These variables all contain numeric quantities. (You can check this using typeof()).
- Hence, you can perform any kind of numerical operations on these variables.
- The eagle-eyed would have noticed that the month value returned by getMonth() is one less than the current month.
- This is because months start at 0 value, thus, January as 0, February as 1, March as 2 ...
- We would have to increment the value returned by getmonth().
Code Explanation :
<script type="text/javascript"> is specifies the type attribute of the Internet media type (formerly known as MIME type) of a script. "text/javascript” specifies the media type.
var d = new Date () specifies a variable d contains a new date object. We can now call the various methods of this date object.
var curr_date = d.getDate() it return the current day of the month.
var curr_month = d.getMonth()+1 specifies the current month.
var curr_year = d.getFullYear() specifies these method returns the year (four digits for dates between year 1000 and 9999) of the specified date.
document.write(curr_date + "-" + curr_month + "-" + curr_year); document.write specifies the write() method writes JavaScript code to a document. And (curr_date + "-" + curr_month + "-" + curr_year) returns the current date – month-year in this format.
</script> defines the end of script tag in the sample code.
Sample Output :
Here in this output we display the 30-5-2016 which specifies the Current date-month-year in the format.
