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

I am using this which works if you pass it a date obj or js timestamp:

getHumanReadableDate: function(date) {
    if (date instanceof Date) {
         return date.getDate() + "/" + (date.getMonth() + 1) + "/" + date.getFullYear();
    } else if (isFinite(date)) {//timestamp
        var d = new Date();
        d.setTime(date);
        return this.getHumanReadableDate(d);
    }
}