How to format JavaScript date to mm/dd/yyyy

To format a JavaScript date object to the mm/dd/yyyy format, you can use the getDate(), getMonth(), and getFullYear() methods to extract the day, month, and year components of the date object, respectively. Then, you can concatenate these components into a string in the desired format.

Here’s an example:

const date = new Date();
const month = date.getMonth() + 1; // add 1 since getMonth() returns 0-11
const day = date.getDate();
const year = date.getFullYear();
const formattedDate = `${month.toString().padStart(2, '0')}/${day.toString().padStart(2, '0')}/${year}`;
console.log(formattedDate); // e.g. "05/01/2023"

In this example, we’re creating a new Date object with the current date and time. We’re then calling the getMonth(), getDate(), and getFullYear() methods on the date object to extract the month, day, and year components, respectively.

Note that the getMonth() method returns a zero-based index for the month (0 for January, 1 for February, etc.), so we’re adding 1 to the result to get the month as a number between 1 and 12.

We’re then using the toString() method to convert the month, day, and year components to strings, and the padStart() method to ensure that the month and day components have two digits (e.g., “01” instead of “1”).

Finally, we’re concatenating the month, day, and year components into a string in the format mm/dd/yyyy.