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Javascript date formatting

Javascript date formatting

Convert an existing valid date format to another

We will do this without any external library. To convert January 25 2023 to 2023-01-25, use this:

const d = new Date("January 25 2023");
const new_d = d.getFullYear() + "-" + (d.getMonth() + 1) + "-" + d.getDate();
console.log(new_d) // 2023-1-25
// now date is 2023-1-25 , the month is missing a 0 before it
// lets fix it
const getMonth = d.toLocaleString("default", { month: "2-digit" });
const new_d_2 = d.getFullYear() + "-" + getMonth + "-" + d.getDate();
console.log(new_d_2) // 2023-01-25

Note that regular getMonth() returns month from 0 for January, hence add 1 to it. But this is not needed for d.toLocaleString.

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