How to convert "YYYY-MM-DD" format to Date object

Question

I have date in the format of "YYYY-MM-DD" i need to convert it into Mon Feb 21 2022 05:30:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time) format

Does this answer your question? [How do you convert a JavaScript date to UTC?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/948532/how-do-you-convert-a-javascript-date-to-utc) — pasine, Feb 17 '22 at 10:42
More answers https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5619202/parsing-a-string-to-a-date-in-javascript and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17545708/parse-date-without-timezone-javascript — pasine, Feb 17 '22 at 10:45
@cmgchess How does `.toString()` help in converting to date object? — phuzi, Feb 17 '22 at 10:48
@cmgchess I just wanted to convert "YYYY-MM-DD" date to above asked format. — Bahubali Ak, Feb 17 '22 at 10:49
@phuzi i guess i didnt read the question properly. thought he needed to format that way — cmgchess, Feb 17 '22 at 10:56
@BahubaliAk Not sure how 17th Feb becomes 22nd Feb! Guessing that's a typo — phuzi, Feb 17 '22 at 10:57

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 17 '22 at 10:43

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You just need to use new Date()

new Date('2022-02-17')

answered Feb 17 '22 at 10:43

Hao-Jung Hsieh

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 17 '22 at 10:43

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You can do new Date('2022-02-2017').

answered Feb 17 '22 at 10:43

Evan Kapantais

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 17 '22 at 10:48

To answer the question in the title, you can simply just initialize a Date object by using the string you have

const date = new Date("2022-02-17");

Now formatting it into something else can be a tedious to do. Using library such as date-fns would be easier.

Javascript has a native method closer to what you want:

new Date("2022-02-17").toLocaleString('hi-IN', { timeZone: "Asia/Kolkata" })

will return: '17/2/2022, 5:30:00 am'.

Now formatting it to something else IMO should be in a different question since the title of this question is already answered.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 17 '22 at 10:51

I would recommend using Luxon for date manipulation in Javascript.

import { DateTime } from 'luxon';
const dt = new DateTime.fromISO("2022-02-17");
const formatted = dt.toLocaleString(DATETIME_FULL);

In your question the date you want to convert it to is 4 days ahead. If this isn't a typo, you can also add days to the date object like this:

const addDays = dt.plus({ days: 4 });

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