How to Display Date Format in JavaScript?

You can display different date format using Date object in JavaScript for your webpage or web application.The different date format may be year only (YYYY), year and month (YYYY-MM), complete date (YYYY-MM-DD), complete day with day name (YYYY-MM-DD DayName) and date with different time format. Different methods are available in date object to manipulate date in JavaScript. The Date object automatically hold the current date and time as its initial value. You can extract Year, Month, Day along with Hours, Minutes and Seconds from it. Here I have given very simple codes for printing different date formats, you can use respective codes for displaying that format of date on your web page.

JavaScript Date Format YYYY (year only)

It prints Year only. i.e. 2014

JavaScript Date Format YYYY-MM or MM-YYYY (year and month)

It prints Year and Month. i.e. February, 2014

JavaScript Date Format YYYY-MM-DD (complete date)

It prints Year, Month and Day. i.e. February21, 2014

JavaScript Date Format YYYY-MM-DD-DayName (date with day name)

It prints Year, Month and Day with Day Name. i.e. February21, 2014 Friday

JavaScript Date Format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm (date with hour and minute)

It prints Year, Month and Day with Hour and Minute. i.e. February21, 2014 9:18

To include other time formats refer to the previous post: How to Create a Digital Clock in JavaScript?