Javascript Formatting date
In modern browsers (*), date.prototype.toLocaleDateString() allows you to define the formatting of a Date in a convenient manner.
It requires the following format :
dateObj.toLocaleDateString([locales [, options]])The locales parameter should be a string with a BCP 47 language tag, or an array of such strings.
The options parameter should be an object with some or all of the following properties:
var today = new Date().toLocaleDateString('en-GB', {
day : 'numeric',
month : 'short',
year : 'numeric'
});
Output
Going custom
If Date.prototype.toLocaleDateString() isn't flexible enough to fulfill whatever need you may have, you might
want to consider creating a custom Date object that looks like this
var DateObject = (function() {
var monthNames = [
"January", "February", "March",
"April", "May", "June", "July",
"August", "September", "October",
"November", "December"
];
var date = function(str) {
this.set(str);
};
date.prototype = {
set : function(str) {
var dateDef = str ? new Date(str) : new Date();
this.day = dateDef.getDate();
this.dayPadded = (this.day < 10) ? ("0" + this.day) : "" + this.day;
this.month = dateDef.getMonth() + 1;
this.monthPadded = (this.month < 10) ? ("0" + this.month) : "" + this.month;
this.monthName = monthNames[this.month - 1];
this.year = dateDef.getFullYear();
},
get : function(properties, separator) {
var separator = separator ? separator : '-'
ret = [];
for(var i in properties) {
ret.push(this[properties[i]]);
}
return ret.join(separator)
}
};
return date;
})();
To get a formatted string, you could do something like this
new DateObject().get(['dayPadded', 'monthPadded', 'year'])