Getting current date and time in JavaScript

Question

I have a script that prints the current date and time in JavaScript, but the DATEis allways wrong. Here is the code:

var currentdate = new Date();
var datetime = "Last Sync: " + currentdate.getDay() + "/"+currentdate.getMonth() 
+ "/" + currentdate.getFullYear() + " @ " 
+ currentdate.getHours() + ":" 
+ currentdate.getMinutes() + ":" + currentdate.getSeconds();

It should print 18/04/2012 15:07:33 and prints 3/3/2012 15:07:33

Any help? Thanks

Answer 1

function UniqueDateTime(format='',language='en-US'){
    //returns a meaningful unique number based on current time, and milliseconds, making it virtually unique
    //e.g : 20170428-115833-547
    //allows personal formatting like more usual :YYYYMMDDHHmmSS, or YYYYMMDD_HH:mm:SS
    var dt = new Date();
    var modele="YYYYMMDD-HHmmSS-mss";
    if (format!==''){
      modele=format;
    }
    modele=modele.replace("YYYY",dt.getFullYear());
    modele=modele.replace("MM",(dt.getMonth()+1).toLocaleString(language, {minimumIntegerDigits: 2, useGrouping:false}));
    modele=modele.replace("DD",dt.getDate().toLocaleString(language, {minimumIntegerDigits: 2, useGrouping:false}));
    modele=modele.replace("HH",dt.getHours().toLocaleString(language, {minimumIntegerDigits: 2, useGrouping:false}));
    modele=modele.replace("mm",dt.getMinutes().toLocaleString(language, {minimumIntegerDigits: 2, useGrouping:false}));
    modele=modele.replace("SS",dt.getSeconds().toLocaleString(language, {minimumIntegerDigits: 2, useGrouping:false}));
    modele=modele.replace("mss",dt.getMilliseconds().toLocaleString(language, {minimumIntegerDigits: 3, useGrouping:false}));
    return modele;
}

Answer 2

var datetime = new Date().toLocaleString().slice(0,9) +" "+new Date(new Date()).toString().split(' ')[4];
console.log(datetime);

Answer 3

I needed to figure this out for a slate in after effects. Here's what I came up with after taking elements from a few different sources -- Formatting is MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM AM/PM

D = new Date(Date(00));
M = D.getMonth()+1;
H = D.getHours();
Mi = D.getMinutes();

N = "AM"
if (H >= 12)
N = "PM"
if (H > 12)
{
H = H-12
}

amtOfZeroes = 2;
isNeg = false;

if (M < 0)
{
M = Math.abs(M);
isNeg = true;
}
Mo = Math.round(M) + "";
while(Mo.length < amtOfZeroes)
{

Mo = "0" + Mo; 
}
if (isNeg)
Mo = "-" + Mo;

if (H < 0)
{
H = Math.abs(H);
isNeg = true;
}
Ho = Math.round(H) + "";
while(Ho.length < amtOfZeroes)
{
Ho = "0" + Ho; 
}
if (isNeg)
Ho = "-" + Ho;

if (Mi < 0)
{
Mi = Math.abs(Mi);
isNeg = true;
}
Min = Math.round(Mi) + "";
while(Min.length < amtOfZeroes)
{
Min = "0" + Min; 
}
if (isNeg)
Min = "-" + Min;

T = Ho + ":" + (Min)

Mo + "/" + D.getDate() + "/" + D.getFullYear() + "  " + T + " " + N

Answer 4

getDay() gets the day of the week. 3 is Wednesday. You want getDate(), that will return 18.

Also getMonth() starts at 0, you need to add 1 to get 4 (April).

DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/4zVxp/

Answer 5

function display_c(){   
    var refresh = 1000; // Refresh rate in milli seconds    
    mytime = setTimeout('display_ct()', refresh)    
}

function display_ct() {

    var strcount    
    var currentdate = new Date();

    document.getElementById('ct').innerHTML = currentdate.toDateString() + " " + currentdate.getHours() + ":" + currentdate.getMinutes() + ":" + currentdate.getSeconds();

    tt = display_c();   
}


id = 'ct'     // Replace in Your id

onload = "display_ct();"     // Type inside a Body Tag

Answer 6

To get time and date you should use

    new Date().toLocaleString();

>> "09/08/2014, 2:35:56 AM"

To get only the date you should use

    new Date().toLocaleDateString();

>> "09/08/2014"

To get only the time you should use

    new Date().toLocaleTimeString();

>> "2:35:56 AM"

Or if you just want the time in the format hh:mm without AM/PM for US English

    new Date().toLocaleTimeString('en-US', { hour12: false, 
                                             hour: "numeric", 
                                             minute: "numeric"});
>> "02:35"

or for British English

    new Date().toLocaleTimeString('en-GB', { hour: "numeric", 
                                             minute: "numeric"});

>> "02:35"

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