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Hi i want to convert the current date to a format as follows in javascript: Apr 12, 2011 06:42:03.

Any suggestions?????

harishtps
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    http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=javascript+format+date – Pekka Apr 12 '11 at 15:19
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    possible duplicate of [How to convert Date format](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2566151/how-to-convert-date-format) – Pekka Apr 12 '11 at 15:20
  • 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 May 27 '19 at 01:26

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Little example I just whipped up for you. Very easy to tell whats going on. 

var monthNames = new Array("January", "February", "March", 
"April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", 
"October", "November", "December");

var today = new Date();
var cDate = today.getDate();
var cMonth = today.getMonth();
var cYear = today.getFullYear();

var cHour = today.getHours();
var cMin = today.getMinutes();
var cSec = today.getSeconds();

alert( monthNames[cMonth] + " " +cDate  + "," +cYear + " " +cHour+ ":" + cMin+ ":" +cSec );
clamchoda
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Have you looked at this

dateFormat(now, "mmm dd, yyyy hh:MM:ss");

it is light weight (1.2 KB) and supports the following formats

  • d Day of the month as digits; no leading zero for single-digit days.
  • dd Day of the month as digits; leading zero for single-digit days.
  • ddd Day of the week as a three-letter abbreviation.
  • dddd Day of the week as its full name.
  • m Month as digits; no leading zero for single-digit months.
  • mm Month as digits; leading zero for single-digit months.
  • mmm Month as a three-letter abbreviation.
  • mmmm Month as its full name.
  • yy Year as last two digits; leading zero for years less than 10.
  • yyyy Year represented by four digits.
  • h Hours; no leading zero for single-digit hours (12-hour clock).
  • hh Hours; leading zero for single-digit hours (12-hour clock).
  • H Hours; no leading zero for single-digit hours (24-hour clock).
  • HH Hours; leading zero for single-digit hours (24-hour clock).
  • M Minutes; no leading zero for single-digit minutes. Uppercase M unlike CF timeFormat's m to avoid conflict with months.
  • MM Minutes; leading zero for single-digit minutes. Uppercase MM unlike CF timeFormat's mm to avoid conflict with months.
  • s Seconds; no leading zero for single-digit seconds.
  • ss Seconds; leading zero for single-digit seconds.
  • l or L Milliseconds. l gives 3 digits. L gives 2 digits.
  • t Lowercase, single-character time marker string: a or p.
  • tt Lowercase, two-character time marker string: am or pm.
  • T Uppercase, single-character time marker string: A or P. Uppercase T unlike CF's t to allow for user-specified casing.
  • TT Uppercase, two-character time marker string: AM or PM. Uppercase TT unlike CF's tt to allow for user-specified casing.
  • Z US timezone abbreviation, e.g. EST or MDT. With non-US timezones or in the Opera browser, the GMT/UTC offset is returned, e.g. GMT-0500
  • o GMT/UTC timezone offset, e.g. -0500 or +0230.
  • S The date's ordinal suffix (st, nd, rd, or th). Works well with d.
  • '…' or "…" Literal character sequence. Surrounding quotes are removed.
  • UTC: Must be the first four characters of the mask. Converts the date from local time to UTC/GMT/Zulu time before applying the mask. The "UTC:" prefix is removed.
SavoryBytes
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You may be interested in http://www.datejs.com/

thanks for the comments guys, I should of really linked more directly to the formatting options.

http://code.google.com/p/datejs/wiki/FormatSpecifiers

Alex KeySmith
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  • That is for reading dates to a Date object, the questioner wants the opposite. – Dykam Apr 12 '11 at 15:49
  • @Dykam: look properly before you comment. DateJS also provides an extended [toString](http://code.google.com/p/datejs/wiki/APIDocumentation#toString) method which gives you [extensive control](http://code.google.com/p/datejs/wiki/FormatSpecifiers) over the date formatting. – Martijn Apr 12 '11 at 15:52
  • Oh, I'm sorry then. Last time I used it I didn't spot it then. Quite a while ago. – Dykam Apr 12 '11 at 16:06
  • Thanks @Martijn & @Dykam for pointing that out, I've added more detail to mention a link to the formatting options. – Alex KeySmith Apr 12 '11 at 16:07
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This small library duplicates the strftime() functionality available in other languages in JavaScript.

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