Getting today's date from a specific date format in React

Question

I would like to get today's date with the format below in React:

    "2019020420"

I am able to get the current date with this function. How do I modify this such that it will give me the above date format?

     getCurrentDate() {    
            var tempDate = new Date();
            var date = tempDate.getFullYear() + '-' + (tempDate.getMonth()+1) + '-' + tempDate.getDate() +' '+ tempDate.getHours()+':'+ tempDate.getMinutes()+':'+ tempDate.getSeconds();
            const currDate = date;
            return currDate;       
        }

Possible duplicate of [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) — Heretic Monkey, Mar 04 '19 at 19:14
Doesnt specifically answer your question but i would highly recommend using something like moment.js if you're working with dates in js — nathan.medz, Mar 04 '19 at 19:15
can you please specify exactly what is your date format? e.g. YYYY-MM-DD — bsekula, Mar 04 '19 at 19:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 04 '19 at 19:19

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try this library for formatting date in your desired format. https://date-fns.org/

answered Mar 04 '19 at 19:19

Irfan Alam

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dekauliya · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-04T19:30:13.030

You can use template literals.

let formatTwoDigits = (digit) => ("0" + digit).slice(-2);
var tempDate = new Date();
var date = `${tempDate.getFullYear()}${formatTwoDigits(tempDate.getMonth()+1)}${formatTwoDigits(tempDate.getDate())}${formatTwoDigits(tempDate.getHours())}${formatTwoDigits(tempDate.getMinutes())}${formatTwoDigits(tempDate.getSeconds())}`;
console.log(date);

However, implementing date formatting by ourselves sometimes could be tedious. If you don't mind using a library, you can take a look at moment.js and its format functions. Moment.js is a commonly used JS library for parsing, manipulating, and formatting dates.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 04 '19 at 20:17

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use moment.js from https://momentjs.com/ Take a look at there first few examples for how to use it for reformatting dates.

answered Mar 04 '19 at 20:17

Joey Nelson

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Getting today's date from a specific date format in React

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