Formatting date to desired format in javascript

Question

How to I modify the below function to output date in the desired format, please?

Sending date to be formatted:

Original format: 2015-10-27 21:41:22

var d = new Date(globalStore.data[i].DateReg);
var e = formatDate(d);

Date function:

function formatDate(date) {
  var hours = date.getHours();
  var minutes = date.getMinutes();
  var ampm = hours >= 12 ? 'pm' : 'am';
  hours = hours % 12;
  hours = hours ? hours : 12; // the hour '0' should be '12'
  minutes = minutes < 10 ? '0'+minutes : minutes;
  var strTime = hours + ':' + minutes + ' ' + ampm;//to show time
  return date.getDate() + "/" + date.getMonth() + "/" + date.getFullYear() + " ";
}

Desired format:

14 Nov 2015

Answer 1

Date formatting is very tedious, why not find an easy way.. Use moment.js pretty simple,

http://momentjs.com/

var date = moment().format('DD MMM YYYY')

Answer 2

If you want 14 Nov 2015

var monthNames = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun",
      "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"
    ];

var date = new Date();
var yourDateformat =  date.getDate() + " " + monthNames[date.getMonth()] + " " + date.getFullYear();

Answer 3

I suggest to use library moment.js

var d = moment(globalStore.data[i].DateReg, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss'); // Convert raw date type string to type Datetime
moment(d).format('DD MMM YYYY'); // 27 Nov 2015

OR

function formateDate(strDate) {
    return moment(globalStore.data[i].DateReg, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss').format('DD MMM YYYY');
}

Answer 4

Working fiddle .

Also i suggest momment.js lib, but if you can't use additional libraries you can achieve that using an array of short month names :

 var shodtMonthNames = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"]; var d = new Date("2015-10-27 21:41:22"); var day = d.getDate(); var month = shodtMonthNames[d.getMonth()]; var year = d.getFullYear(); console.log( day + " " + month + " " + year ); 

Hope this helps.

Answer 5

It's a bit lame solution, but I don't think defining a new array to keep month names is necessary. You can use the ones you already have.

var date = new Date().toDateString().split(' ');
// 'Sat Nov 28 2015'
var result = date[2] +' '+ date[1] +' '+ date[3];
// '28 Nov 2015'