Date.prototype.toDateString()
The toDateString()
method returns the date portion of a
Date
object in English in the following format separated by spaces:
- First three letters of the week day name
- First three letters of the month name
- Two digit day of the month, padded on the left a zero if necessary
- Four digit year (at least), padded on the left with zeros if necessary
E.g. "Thu Jan 01 1970".
Syntax
toDateString()
Return value
A string representing the date portion of the given Date
object in human
readable form in English.
Description
Date
instances refer to a specific point in time. Calling
toString()
will return the date formatted in
a human readable form in English. Sometimes it is desirable to obtain a string of the time
portion; such a thing can be accomplished with the toTimeString()
method.
The toDateString()
method is especially useful because compliant engines
implementing ECMA-262 may
differ in the string obtained from toString()
for Date
objects, as the format is implementation-dependent and simple
string slicing approaches may not produce consistent results across multiple engines.
Examples
A basic usage of toDateString()
var d = new Date(1993, 5, 28, 14, 39, 7);
console.log(d.toString()); // logs Mon Jun 28 1993 14:39:07 GMT-0600 (PDT)
console.log(d.toDateString()); // logs Mon Jun 28 1993
Note: Month are 0-indexed when used as an argument of
Date
(thus 0 corresponds to January and 11 to December).
Specifications
Specification |
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ECMAScript Language Specification # sec-date.prototype.todatestring |
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