How to get 2 digit year w/ Javascript? [duplicate]

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//pull the last two digits of the year
//logs to console
//creates a new date object (has the current date and time by default)
//gets the full year from the date object (currently 2017)
//converts the variable to a string
//gets the substring backwards by 2 characters (last two characters)    
console.log(new Date().getFullYear().toString().substr(-2));

Formatting Full Date Time Example (MMddyy): jsFiddle

JavaScript:

//A function for formatting a date to MMddyy
function formatDate(d)
{
    //get the month
    var month = d.getMonth();
    //get the day
    //convert day to string
    var day = d.getDate().toString();
    //get the year
    var year = d.getFullYear();
    
    //pull the last two digits of the year
    year = year.toString().substr(-2);
    
    //increment month by 1 since it is 0 indexed
    //converts month to a string
    month = (month + 1).toString();

    //if month is 1-9 pad right with a 0 for two digits
    if (month.length === 1)
    {
        month = "0" + month;
    }

    //if day is between 1-9 pad right with a 0 for two digits
    if (day.length === 1)
    {
        day = "0" + day;
    }

    //return the string "MMddyy"
    return month + day + year;
}

var d = new Date();
console.log(formatDate(d));