Current date in javascript

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How would I get the current date to display in jquery as "Saturday, October 31, 2015"? I can only find how to get the date to display as "dd/mm/yyyy"

There is no built in Date formatting in jQuery. http://momentjs.com/ — Alex K., Oct 31 '15 at 15:05
You can use moment.js: http://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/ — Alexander Elgin, Oct 31 '15 at 15:12
you can also check this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1531093/how-to-get-current-date-in-javascript — Maduro, Oct 31 '15 at 15:17
Would it be impossible for me to learn to do this in PHP if its so easy? — jogx, Oct 31 '15 at 15:20
`$today = date("D M j G:i:s T Y"); // Sat Mar 10 17:16:18 MST 2001 ` — Maduro, Oct 31 '15 at 15:31
http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php you can check this link too — Maduro, Oct 31 '15 at 15:33
[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) — Jonathan Lonowski, Oct 31 '15 at 16:02

user2226755 · Answer 1 · 2015-10-31T15:28:25.650

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To get 31/10/2015 use this :

// "31/10/2015" and august : 31/08/2015 :
var a=new Date();
alert([("0" + a.getDate()).slice(-2), ("0" + (a.getMonth()+1)).slice(-2), a.getFullYear()].join("/"));

// "31/10/2015" and august : 31/8/2015 :
[a.getDate(), (a.getMonth() + 1), a.getFullYear()].join("/");

Example :

function getDate() {
  var a=new Date();
  return [("0" + a.getDate()).slice(-2), ("0" + (a.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2), a.getFullYear()].join("/");
}


document.write(getDate());

edited Oct 31 '15 at 15:28

answered Oct 31 '15 at 15:22

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She ask for `Thursday, October 31, 2015` not `31/09/2015` and the current date is `31/10/2015` =) – Maduro Oct 31 '15 at 15:27

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 31 '15 at 16:01

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To get Sat Oct 31 2015 use this:

var TodaysDate = new Date().toDateString();

JsFiddle

answered Oct 31 '15 at 16:01

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 01 '15 at 12:38

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You can:

var date = new Date();

var str = ["Sunday", "mon", "tues", "wed", "thurs", "fri", "sat", "sun"][date.getDay()];
str += ", " + ["jan", "feb", "mar", "apr", "may", "june", "jul", "aug", "sep", "oct", "November", "dec"][date.getMonth()];
str += " "  + date.getDate();
str += ", " + date.getFullYear();

console.log(str);

Sunday, November 1, 2015

answered Nov 01 '15 at 12:38

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Amazing!! beautiful ty Alex – jogx Nov 02 '15 at 14:25

Current date in javascript

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