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

EUROPE (ENGLISH/SPANISH) FORMAT
I you need to get the current day too, you can use this one.

function getFormattedDate(today) 
{
    var week = new Array('Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday');
    var day  = week[today.getDay()];
    var dd   = today.getDate();
    var mm   = today.getMonth()+1; //January is 0!
    var yyyy = today.getFullYear();
    var hour = today.getHours();
    var minu = today.getMinutes();

    if(dd<10)  { dd='0'+dd } 
    if(mm<10)  { mm='0'+mm } 
    if(minu<10){ minu='0'+minu } 

    return day+' - '+dd+'/'+mm+'/'+yyyy+' '+hour+':'+minu;
}

var date = new Date();
var text = getFormattedDate(date);

*For Spanish format, just translate the WEEK variable.

var week = new Array('Domingo', 'Lunes', 'Martes', 'Miércoles', 'Jueves', 'Viernes', 'Sábado');

Output: Monday - 16/11/2015 14:24