Javascript date - Leading 0 for days and months where applicable

Question

Is there a clean way of adding a 0 in front of the day or month when the day or month is less than 10:

var myDate = new Date();
var prettyDate =(myDate.getFu         


        

Answer 1

The format you seem to want looks like ISO. So take advantage of toISOString():

var d = new Date();
var date = d.toISOString().slice(0,10); // "2014-05-12"