How to get current date in jquery?

Question

I want to know how to use the Date() function in jQuery to get the current date in a yyyy/mm/dd format.

Answer 1

FYI - getDay() will give you the day of the week... ie: if today is Thursday, it will return the number 4 (being the 4th day of the week).

To get a proper day of the month, use getDate().

My example below... (also a string padding function to give a leading 0 on single time elements. (eg: 10:4:34 => 10:04:35)

function strpad00(s)
{
    s = s + '';
    if (s.length === 1) s = '0'+s;
    return s;
}

var currentdate = new Date();
var datetime = currentdate.getDate() 
    + "/" + strpad00((currentdate.getMonth()+1)) 
    + "/" + currentdate.getFullYear() 
    + " @ " 
    + currentdate.getHours() + ":" 
    + strpad00(currentdate.getMinutes()) + ":" 
    + strpad00(currentdate.getSeconds());

Example output: 31/12/2013 @ 10:07:49
If using getDay(), the output would be 4/12/2013 @ 10:07:49