how to get rid of Date timezone in Javascript?

Question

The following code (see jsfiddle)

var dt = new Date("2016-02-28");
console.log(dt);

logs

Sat Feb 27 2016 19:00:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

Note 27 vs. 28. I need to create a var that's a date, but how to ignore the timezone?

UPDATE:

This solved my problem: parse manually

var dt = new Date("2016-02-28");
console.log(dt);
var dt2 = new Date(2016,1,28);
console.log(dt2);

logs

Sat Feb 27 2016 19:00:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Sun Feb 28 2016 00:00:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

use ' toLocaleDateString' method of date , example https://jsfiddle.net/b43k4zdc/2/ — NullPointerException, Mar 25 '16 at 12:57
How did that solve your problem? That solution still will give you the timezone stuff — Neo, Mar 26 '16 at 16:57

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Mar 25 '16 at 13:05

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for

var dt = new Date("2016-02-28");

dt.toDateString()

gives you "Sun Feb 28 2016"

dt.toLocaleDateString()

gives you "2/28/2016"

edited Mar 25 '16 at 13:05

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answered Mar 25 '16 at 12:59

Neo

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I need the date variable to be set with 2016/02/28, not to print "2016/02/28" – ps0604 Mar 25 '16 at 21:43
well all the getters in the api return in string format – Neo Mar 29 '16 at 12:38

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 25 '16 at 12:59

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If you are creating the date object in JS, then you can use toLocaleDateString() method, so that the date is formatted as per locale

var dt = new Date("2016-02-28");
console.log(dt.toLocaleDateString());

Output

2/27/2016

reference : Javascript date object

JavaScript toLocaleDateString() Method

answered Mar 25 '16 at 12:59

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I need the date variable to be set with 2016/02/28, not to print "2016/02/28" – ps0604 Mar 25 '16 at 21:43

amanuel2 · Answer 3 · 2016-03-25T13:05:41.447

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You can just use the getMoneth(), getYear(), and getDate() functions to get your corresponding date. Then i just inserted it into a p tag so you can actually see it!

var d = new Date();
var m = d.getMonth() + 1;
var y = d.getFullYear();
var n = d.getDate();

document.getElementById("result").innerHTML = m + "/" + n + "/" + y

<p id="result">
</p>

edited Mar 25 '16 at 13:05

answered Mar 25 '16 at 12:57

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I see 2/25/116 - your answer is 1 month behind and the year is not 116 – Aaron Franco Mar 25 '16 at 12:59
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It still isn't February. The month in javascript is an Array with starting index a 0. So, if you print the way you are suggesting, you need to add 1 to the month in order to get the appropriate number. – Aaron Franco Mar 25 '16 at 13:02
@AaronFranco thats actually the problem of Javascript so i just added 1. As you can see [here](http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_getmonth.asp) – amanuel2 Mar 25 '16 at 13:03
It's not a "problem of javascript," it's just the way javascript is. Now your code works properly. – Aaron Franco Mar 25 '16 at 13:04

how to get rid of Date timezone in Javascript?

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