What is the best way to initialize a JavaScript Date to midnight?

Question

What is the simplest way to obtain an instance of new Date() but set the time at midnight?

Answer 1

In case you already have d3.js as a dependency in your project, or don't mind bringing it in, d3-time (d3.js library is modular as of v4.0.0) has got Intervals.

They might prove useful when setting dates to "default" values, e.g. midnight, 0.00 seconds, the first of the month, etc.

var d = new Date(); // Wed Aug 02 2017 15:01:07 GMT+0200 (CEST)
d3.timeHour(d) // Wed Aug 02 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (CEST)
d3.timeMonth(d) // Tue Aug 01 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (CEST)