Is there a built-in function or plugin to handle date formatting in JavaScript?

Question

Currently I need to output a date in a: \'5 October, 2012\' type format. Meaning day-of-month with no leading zeros, space, full month name, comma, space, four-digit year. I

Answer 1

There are lots of date libraries, but if all you want to do is generate one specific format from a date object, it's pretty trivial:

var formatDate = (function() {

  var months = ['January','February','March','April','May','June',
      'July','August','September','October','November','December'];

  return function(date) {
    return date.getDate() + ' ' + months[date.getMonth()] + ', ' + date.getFullYear();
  }
}());

alert(formatDate(new Date())); // 28 September, 2012

I think that took less than 5 minutes.