getMinutes() 0-9 - How to display two digit numbers?

Question

var date = \"2012-01-18T16:03\";
var date = new Date(date);

console.log(date.getMinutes());
console.log(date.getMinutes().length)

This returns 3.

Answer 1

Yikes these answers aren't great, even the top post upticked. Here y'go, cross-browser and cleaner int/string conversion. Plus my advice is don't use a variable name 'date' with code like date = Date(...) where you're relying heavily on language case sensitivity (it works, but risky when you're working with server/browser code in different languages with different rules). So assuming the javascript Date in a var current_date:

mins = ('0'+current_date.getMinutes()).slice(-2);

The technique is take the rightmost 2 characters (slice(-2)) of "0" prepended onto the string value of getMinutes(). So:

"0"+"12" -> "012".slice(-2) -> "12"

and

"0"+"1" -> "01".slice(-2) -> "01"