How to format JavaScript date to mm/dd/yyyy?

Question

Im getting the date like 'Wed Nov 08 2017 00:00:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)' and putting the value in an input.

Is there a way to parse the datetime into a date, add five days to it, and then format it like mm/dd/yyyy?

<script>
  startingDate = new Date(5/5/2017);
 var adjustedDate = addDays(startingDate,13);
$('#max_products').val(adjustedDate);
</script>

If you're looking for high flexibility in human readable date formatting, you might want to check out the Moment.js library. — Patrick Kunka, Sep 14 '17 at 22:03
Related: [Where can I find documentation on formatting a date in JavaScript?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1056728/where-can-i-find-documentation-on-formatting-a-date-in-javascript) — Jonathan Lonowski, Sep 14 '17 at 22:05
wow i solve it with moment.js , can I still give credit to those who solve without it ? — anatp_123, Sep 14 '17 at 22:17

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 14 '17 at 22:01

5

var date = new Date('Mon Aug 14 2017 00:00:00 GMT-0500 (CDT)');
var newdate= (date.getMonth() + 1) + '/' + date.getDate() + '/' +  date.getFullYear();

answered Sep 14 '17 at 22:01

samnu pel

858
5
12

3

Is this really the correct answer? It does not have preceding zero for one digit month or day. Example that I get is `5/1/1993` and this is not mm/dd/yyyy – Undefined function May 10 '21 at 18:02

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 14 '17 at 22:18

2

Just for fun, here's how you could do it with moment.js.

moment('2017-05-05').add(13, 'day').format('MM/DD/YYYY');

fiddle link

answered Sep 14 '17 at 22:18

JavaKungFu

1,234
2
11
24

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 07 '20 at 21:08

1

Here are useful one-liners to get date string in various formats:

Date formatted as m/d/yyyy and MM/DD/yyyy (padded zeroes)

>new Date().toLocaleString().split(",")[0]
"2/7/2020"
>new Date().toLocaleString().split(/\D/).slice(0,3).map(num=>num.padStart(2,"0")).join("/")
"02/07/2020"

Date formatted as yyyy-mm-dd, and yyyymmdd:

>new Date().toISOString().split("T")[0]
"2020-02-07"
>new Date().toISOString().split("T")[0].replace(/-/g,'')
"20200207"

answered Feb 07 '20 at 21:08

Vijay Jagdale

1,937
2
15
16

1

for IE 11 compatibility: new Date().toLocaleString().split(/\/|,| /).slice(0, 3).map(function (n) { return (n.replace(/\u200E/g,"")<10?'0':'') + '' + n}).join("/"); – Vijay Jagdale Feb 07 '20 at 23:12

omikes · Answer 4 · 2021-01-22T05:46:37.230

I'm sure you've solved this by now, but it looked like a fun one so I decided to take a stab at it using Intl.DateTimeFormat.

// get date for five days later
const date = 'Fri Dec 29 2017 00:00:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)';
const dateSet = new Date(date);
const fiveDaysLater = dateSet.setDate(dateSet.getDate() + 5);

// set up date formatting parameters
const ops = {year: 'numeric'};
ops.month = ops.day = '2-digit';

console.log(new Intl.DateTimeFormat([], ops).format(fiveDaysLater));

How to format JavaScript date to mm/dd/yyyy?

4 Answers4

Linked