How to format a date in JavaScript

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Given a Date object:

const date = new Date('July 22, 2018 07:22:13')

there are lots of methods that will generate a string representing that date.

There are a few built-in ones. I list them all, along with a comment that shows a sample
output:

date.toString()

// "Sun Jul 22 2018 07:22:13 GMT+0200 (Central European Summer

Time)"

date.toTimeString() //"07:22:13 GMT+0200 (Central European

Summer Time)"

date.toUTCString() //"Sun, 22 Jul 2018 05:22:13 GMT"

date.toDateString() //"Sun Jul 22 2018"

date.toISOString() //"2018-07-22T05:22:13.000Z" (ISO 8601

format)

date.toLocaleString() //"22/07/2018, 07:22:13"

date.toLocaleTimeString() //"07:22:13"

You are not limited to those, of course - you can use more low level methods to get a
value out of a date, and construct any kind of result you want:

date.getDate() //22

date.getDay() //0 (0 means sunday, 1 means monday..)

date.getFullYear() //2018

date.getMonth() //6 (starts from 0)

date.getHours() //7

date.getMinutes() //22

date.getSeconds() //13

date.getMilliseconds() //0 (not specified)

date.getTime() //1532236933000

date.getTimezoneOffset() //-120 (will vary depending on where

you are and when you check - this is CET during the summer).
Returns the timezone difference expressed in minutes

Those all depend on the current timezone of the computer. There are equivalent UTC
versions of these methods, that return the UTC value rather than the values adapted to your
current timezone:

date.getUTCDate() //22

date.getUTCDay() //0 (0 means sunday, 1 means monday..)

date.getUTCFullYear() //2018

date.getUTCMonth() //6 (starts from 0)

date.getUTCHours() //5 (not 7 like above)

date.getUTCMinutes() //22

date.getUTCSeconds() //13

date.getUTCMilliseconds() //0 (not specified)

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