Get year and month formatted in JavaScript

Question

I need to get the year and month in JavaScript in a specific format, but cannot figure out how. I need it like this:

2022-03

I've tried using these functions but I need the 0 in the month:

console.log(new Date().getFullYear())
console.log(new Date().getMonth() + 1)

but the result is 2022 and 3

How can I format dates in javascript?

Tushar Gupta · Answer 1 · 2022-03-09T15:41:29.533

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You can do something like this, append leading zero to date and slice last two digits

let d = new Date();
date = [
  d.getFullYear(),
  ('0' + (d.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2)
].join('-');

console.log(date)

edited Mar 09 '22 at 15:41

answered Mar 09 '22 at 15:36

Tushar Gupta

Why not just use the String.padLeft method instead of concatenating and slicing – Abir Taheer Mar 09 '22 at 15:50
You can surely, the answer is what it come to me on the spot – Tushar Gupta Mar 09 '22 at 15:52
would this also add a 0 to double digit months? – tHatpart Mar 09 '22 at 15:55
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Nope it wont, as we take the last two chars :), you can just try to his out on console like `('0' + 11).slice(-2)` – Tushar Gupta Mar 09 '22 at 15:58
@tHatpart If the answer helped, can you please mark it as an answer and upvote? – Tushar Gupta Mar 09 '22 at 23:05

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