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

Elegant ES6 function to format a date into hh:mm:ss:

const leadingZero = (num) => `0${num}`.slice(-2);

const formatTime = (date) =>
  [date.getHours(), date.getMinutes(), date.getSeconds()]
  .map(leadingZero)
  .join(':');