Change date format to client date format

Question

Using javascript on Ajax call I get the date format as

Mon Feb 13 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0530(India Standard Time).

I want to change the date format according to clients system date format using javascript.

Can anybody help me with this issue...

Answer 1

Edit:

You can use .toLocaleDateString() to format date based on the client's machine.

    var date=new Date();
    alert(date.toLocaleDateString());

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You should really be using moment.js.

you can initialize locale using moment.locale(); and then format it accordingly. Follow the link for documentation

Answer 2

simple... the following code should do the job :

var date = new Date();
var dateString = date.getDate() + '/' + (date.getMonth() + 1) + '/' + date.getFullYear();

console.log(dateString);

hope this helps :)

Answer 3

Use dateObj.getTimezoneOffset() method to get the timezone offset and then add/subtract according to the result you receive, as described here on MDN and already answered stackoverflow question

function convertUTCDateToLocalDate(date) {
var newDate = new Date(date.getTime()+date.getTimezoneOffset()*60*1000);

var offset = date.getTimezoneOffset() / 60;
var hours = date.getHours();

newDate.setHours(hours - offset);

return newDate;   
}

Usage:

var date = convertUTCDateToLocalDate(new Date(date_string_you_received));

Display the time based on local time

date.toLocaleString();

as answered by @Adorjan Princz