I have a string "26-08-2016" and I want to convert it to "2016-08-26". I prefer when possible to do this using the date object. But I am afraid some regex solution is only available?
4 Answers
You can try
var date = "26-08-2016";
var newdate = date.split("-").reverse().join("-");
Input : 26-08-2016
Output : 2016-08-26
Comments
Did you alredy try to use moment.js?
var mydate = moment("26-08-2016" , "DD-MM-YYYY").format("YYYY-MM-DD");
1 Comment
Ingvi Jónasson
No but this looks awesome.
try this
montharray = [01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12];
var final_date = new Date("26-08-2016");
var month_of_date = montharray[final_date.getMonth()];
final_date = final_date.getFullYear() + "-" + month_of_date + "-" + final_date.getDate();
Comments
The Dateobject does expose an API which allows you to get certain values from the object such as date, month, hour, and timezone, which can be used to format a date string.
Simple formatting example using Date object methods.
var date = new Date();
var output = [date.getFullYear(), date.getMonth()+1, date.getDate()].join('-');
console.log( output ); //2016-8-26
The better way is probably to write a formatting function like so:
function formatDate(now) {
var year = now.getFullYear();
var month = now.getMonth()+1;
var date = now.getDate();
//Add '0' to month if less than 10
month = (month.toString().length < 2)
? "0"+month.toString()
: month;
return [year, month, date].join('-');
//return `${year}-${month}-${date}`; if you're using ES6
}
var now = new Date();
console.log(
formatDate(now)
); // 2016-08-26
All available methods are found here at mozilla docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/getMonth
"26-08-2016".split('-').reverse().join('-')