How to set input type date's default value to today?

Question

The HTML5 input types are great, Opera\'s new built-in date picker is a breeze, and Chrome has at least supported the new input type with a spin-wheel implementation.

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Answer 1

The simplest solutions seem to overlook that UTC time will be used, including highly up-voted ones. Below is a streamlined, ES6, non-jQuery version of a couple of existing answers:

const today = (function() {
    const now = new Date();
    const month = (now.getMonth() + 1).toString().padStart(2, '0');
    const day = now.getDate().toString().padStart(2, '0');
    return `${now.getFullYear()}-${month}-${day}`;
})();
console.log(today); // as of posting this answer: 2019-01-24