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

I would like to provide a more neat solution to the problem if I may.The accepted answer is very good. But I would have done it like this.

Date.prototype.getFullMinutes = function () {
   if (this.getMinutes() < 10) {
       return '0' + this.getMinutes();
   }
   return this.getMinutes();
};

Now if you want to use this.

console.log(date.getFullMinutes());