How to get year/month/day from a date object?

Question

alert(dateObj) gives Wed Dec 30 2009 00:00:00 GMT+0800

How to get date in format 2009/12/30?

Answer 1

Nice formatting add-in: http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/date-time-format.

With that you could write:

var now = new Date();
now.format("yyyy/mm/dd");