Convert javascript to date object to mysql date format (YYYY-MM-DD)

Question

I\'m trying to use javascript to convert a date object into a valid mysql date - what is the best way to do this?

Answer 1

Try this

dateTimeToMYSQL(datx) {
    var d = new Date(datx),
      month = '' + (d.getMonth() + 1),
      day = d.getDate().toString(),
      year = d.getFullYear(),
      hours = d.getHours().toString(),
      minutes = d.getMinutes().toString(),
      secs = d.getSeconds().toString();
    if (month.length < 2) month = '0' + month;
    if (day.length < 2) day = '0' + day;
    if (hours.length < 2) hours = '0' + hours;
    if (minutes.length < 2) minutes = '0' + minutes;
    if (secs.length < 2) secs = '0' + secs;
    return [year, month, day].join('-') + ' ' + [hours, minutes, secs].join(':');
  }

Note that you can remove the hours, minutes and seconds and you will have the result as YYYY-MM-DD The advantage is that the datetime entered in the HTML form remains the same: no transformation into UTC

The result will be (for your example) :

dateToMYSQL(datx) {
    var d = new Date(datx),
      month = '' + (d.getMonth() + 1),
      day = d.getDate().toString(),
      year = d.getFullYear();
    if (month.length < 2) month = '0' + month;
    if (day.length < 2) day = '0' + day;
    return [year, month, day].join('-');
  }