Get current date in DD-Mon-YYY format in JavaScript/Jquery

Question

I need to get the date format as 'DD-Mon-YYYY' in javascript. I had asked a question, and it got marked duplicate to jQuery date formatting

But, the answers provided in the question are to get the current date in "DD-MM-YYYY" format and not "DD-MON-YYYY". Secondly, I am not using datepicker plugin.

Can you please help me as if how to get the current date in "DD-Mon-YYYY" format.

Solution 1

There is no native format in javascript for DD-Mon-YYYY.

You will have to put it all together manually.

The answer is inspired from : How to format a JavaScript date

// Attaching a new function  toShortFormat()  to any instance of Date() class

Date.prototype.toShortFormat = function() {

    let monthNames =["Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr",
                      "May","Jun","Jul","Aug",
                      "Sep", "Oct","Nov","Dec"];
    
    let day = this.getDate();
    
    let monthIndex = this.getMonth();
    let monthName = monthNames[monthIndex];
    
    let year = this.getFullYear();
    
    return `${day}-${monthName}-${year}`;  
}

// Now any Date object can be declared 
let anyDate = new Date(1528578000000);

// and it can represent itself in the custom format defined above.
console.log(anyDate.toShortFormat());    // 10-Jun-2018

let today = new Date();
console.log(today.toShortFormat());     // today's date

Solution 2

You can use toLocaleDateString and hunt for a format that's close to DD-mmm-YYYY (hint: 'en-GB'; you just need to replace the spaces with '-').

const date = new Date();
const formattedDate = date.toLocaleDateString('en-GB', {
  day: 'numeric', month: 'short', year: 'numeric'
}).replace(/ /g, '-');
console.log(formattedDate);

Solution 3

Use the Moment.js library http://momentjs.com/ It will save you a LOT of trouble.

moment().format('DD-MMM-YYYY');

Solution 4

Can be done with toLocaleDateString

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/toLocaleDateString

<script>
const date = new Date();
const formattedDate = date.toLocaleDateString('en-GB', {
  day: '2-digit', month: 'short', year: 'numeric'
}).replace(/ /g, '-');
document.write(formattedDate);
</script>

Solution 5

I've made a custom date string format function, you can use that.

var  getDateString = function(date, format) {
        var months = ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'],
        getPaddedComp = function(comp) {
            return ((parseInt(comp) < 10) ? ('0' + comp) : comp)
        },
        formattedDate = format,
        o = {
            "y+": date.getFullYear(), // year
            "M+": months[date.getMonth()], //month
            "d+": getPaddedComp(date.getDate()), //day
            "h+": getPaddedComp((date.getHours() > 12) ? date.getHours() % 12 : date.getHours()), //hour
             "H+": getPaddedComp(date.getHours()), //hour
            "m+": getPaddedComp(date.getMinutes()), //minute
            "s+": getPaddedComp(date.getSeconds()), //second
            "S+": getPaddedComp(date.getMilliseconds()), //millisecond,
            "b+": (date.getHours() >= 12) ? 'PM' : 'AM'
        };

        for (var k in o) {
            if (new RegExp("(" + k + ")").test(format)) {
                formattedDate = formattedDate.replace(RegExp.$1, o[k]);
            }
        }
        return formattedDate;
    };

And now suppose you've :-

    var date = "2014-07-12 10:54:11";

So to format this date you write:-

var formattedDate = getDateString(new Date(date), "d-M-y")

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Comments

[Dan Dascalescu]

The currently accepted answer is overly complicated. I've edited another answer that I think answers your question better. Can you please take a look?

[Tushar]

yes I understand the date format, but how can I convert current date to dd-mon-yyyy, Eg I want to get current date in 15-Dec-2014, format.

[Ahmad]

This is not an answer. Please post a valid applicable answer

[Vince V.]

Normally this should work (tested in console): test = new Date(); test.format('d-M-Y')

[wintvelt]

This is a very low quality answer: please provide explanation of what your code does. Also, this code does not take parameter, but does expect a global variable d. Finally, it does not answer OPs question: YYYY/MM/DD is not the same as DD-Mon-YYY that was asked for.

[roberto tomás]

agreed. this would be great but format is not a function

[NullPointer]

When executed in console TypeError: test.format is not a function test = new Date() test.format('d-M-Y');

[Ahmad]

This answer does not meet the requirement of the OP. The required format is dd-Mon-yyyy not dd-MM-yyyy

[Felix]

this is JS not Java

[Roshana Pitigala]

While this may answer the question it's better to add some description on how this answer may help to solve the issue. Please read How do I write a good answer to know more.

[Dan Dascalescu]

You don't need to roll your own date functions. The Date object already has a method that does what the OP asked.

[Dan Dascalescu]

...or you could have improved the existing answer that uses toLocaleDateString.

[Dan Dascalescu]

It will also bloat your code a lot and is unnecessary when JavaScript core can solve the problem without libraries.

[Klemen Tusar]

Well yes. There is also the excellent date-fns library date-fns.org. I mean with today's npm packages it hardly makes sense to roll your own.

[Sujatha Girijala]

my output format is Dec-11,-2019 which is not expected. please help me out

[Mikhail Kh]

thanks, answer above doesn`t work in my locale, but yours works fine!

[Sushin Pv]

The perfect answer! Rest all answers will produce the result in a different order

[Amy Doxy]

@SujathaGirijala did you find a solution?

[RobG]

There are a large number of date libraries, should there be an answer for every one of them? Many are much smaller than moment.js.

[Klemen Tusar]

@RobG Indeed there are now, but back in 2014, when I gave this answer, there really wasn't much to play with.

[Calsal]

@SujathaGirijala that's probably because of the locale you're using. 'en-GB' is used in this example and that should give you DD Mon YYYY. If you use locale 'en-US' you get Mon DD, YYYY.

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[Zsolt Meszaros]

OP wanted DD-Mon-YYYY, your answer is DD/MM/YYYY.