Date formatting for javascript

Question

I am displaying a date which takes the following format;

Sun Feb 24 2013 00:00:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)

All what i want is Sunday February 24 2013. How could i format the above date to the format i want ?

var date = $(this).datepicker('getDate');
                  theDay = new Date(date.getFullYear(), date.getMonth(), date.getDate());

See this post [formatting-a-date-in-javascript](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1056728/formatting-a-date-in-javascript) — Dumitru Chirutac, Feb 15 '13 at 20:35
Since you're already using the datePicker, `$.datepicker.formatDate()` does exactly what you wan't. — adeneo, Feb 15 '13 at 20:36

Garis M Suero · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-15T21:00:40.213

2

Using the DatePicker

$(this).datepicker({
    dateFormat: "DD MM d yy"
});

Edited, by request:

<input type="text" id="myinputfield" value="" />
<script>
    $("#myinputfield").datepicker({
        dateFormat: "DD MM d yy"
    });
<script>

edited Feb 15 '13 at 21:00

answered Feb 15 '13 at 20:33

Garis M Suero

Where do you want to display the string with the formatted date? – Garis M Suero Feb 15 '13 at 20:46
Whats the Id of your text field? if the textfield's id is "myinputfield" you should use "#myinputfield" instead of "this" when calling the function datepicker – Garis M Suero Feb 15 '13 at 20:58
Ok, so what you say is that i should get rid of my 2 lines (shown in the above post) and add your code instead ? – user1315906 Feb 15 '13 at 20:59

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