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Using JavaScript to Get Date Format in dd mm yyyy

August 31, 2022 Leave a Comment

We can use JavaScript to get the date in the format of dd mm yyyy by making use of the JavaScript toLocaleString() method. There are many configurations we can utilize with the toLocaleString() method to display the date how we want. One of these configurations will get the format we want.

Note that we will use the toLocaleDateString() method is our examples below. This method works the same way as the toLocaleString() method, except that it will just display the date, and NOT the time.

Here is the code to get the date in the format of dd-mm-yyyy. We will explain how we got this below.

var currDate = new Date();
var localDate1 = currDate.toLocaleDateString('es-CL');

console.log(localDate1);

#Output
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The JavaScript toLocaleString method will take a date object and return the date as a string using the local settings from your computer.

var currDate = new Date();
var localDate = currDate.toLocaleString();

The date is returned in a much friendlier format for the user than what the Date() method returns. The outputs of currDate and localDate from above are displayed as follows:

currDate: Fri Jan 28 2022 21:35:02 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
localDate: 1/28/2022, 9:35:02 PM

So if we wanted to display the date in the dd-mm-yyyy format, we can use different options for parameters in the toLocaleString() method. A list of these options can be found here.

So to get the date in the format of dd-mm-yyyy, we can simply use the es-CL language format as the only parameter in the toLocaleString() method. Let’s see this below.

var currDate = new Date();
var localDate2 = currDate.toLocaleDateString('es-CL');

console.log(localDate2);

#Output
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If we want to display the date with slashes instead of hyphens, dd/mm/yyyy, we can use the following parameter:

var currDate = new Date();
var localDate3 = currDate.toLocaleDateString('en-AU');

console.log(localDate3);

#Output
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There are other languages we can put as the parameter that would also display the date in the dd-mm-yyyy format as well, we just chose the first one we saw down the list.

Another very simple way to display the date in the dd-mm-yyyy format is to simply get the year, month, and date in the format we want, and combine them. Here is some code below to show how easily this can be done.

var currDate = new Date();
var year = currDate.toLocaleString('en-US', { year: 'numeric'});
var month = currDate.toLocaleString('en-US', { month: '2-digit'});
var day = currDate.toLocaleString('en-US', { day: '2-digit'});

var dateInDDMMYYYY = day + "-" + month + "-" + year;

console.log(dateInDDMMYYYY);

#Output
31-08-2022

Displaying the Current Date and Time in DD-MM-YYYY using the JavaScript toLocaleString Method

Below we will provide code to get the current date in JavaScript, and let the user see it in a friendly format when they click a button.

<div id="div1">
  <div id="click-me" onclick="genNewDate()">Get Date</div>
  <p>Today's Date is: <span id="theDate"></span></p>
</div>

We will simply get the Date with the Date() method, and use the toLocaleString() method and some parameter options to display the date and time nicely. Here is the simple JavaScript code:

function genNewDate(){
  var currDate = new Date();
  var localDate = currDate.toLocaleDateString('es-CL');
  document.getElementById("theDate").innerHTML = localDate;
}

The final code and output for this example is below:

Code Output:

Get Date

Today’s Date is:

Full Code:

<div id="div1">
  <div id="click-me" onclick="genNewDate()">Get Date</div>
  <p>Today's Date is: <span id="theDate"></span></p>
</div>

<script>

function genNewDate(){
  var currDate = new Date();
  var localDate = currDate.toLocaleDateString('es-CL');
  document.getElementById("theDate").innerHTML = localDate;
}

</script>

Hopefully this article has been useful in helping you understand how to use JavaScript to get the date in the format of dd mm yyyy.

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