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

Another short way is to fill the minutes with a leading zero using:

String(date.getMinutes()).padStart(2, "0");

Meaning: Make the string two chars long, if a char is missing then set 0 at this position.

See docs at str.padStart(targetLength, padString)