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

No, there is no nice way to do it. You have to resort to something like:

var myDate = new Date();

var year = myDate.getFullYear();

var month = myDate.getMonth() + 1;
if(month <= 9)
    month = '0'+month;

var day= myDate.getDate();
if(day <= 9)
    day = '0'+day;

var prettyDate = year +'-'+ month +'-'+ day;