How to get a date format string from a sheet cell?

Question

In a google script function I need to get a date value from a google sheets I have done something like this

var csh = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var da         


        

Answer 1

apps script automatically converts Spreadsheet dates to Javascript dates. when I run your code, msg is equal to "date = Wed Nov 11 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0100 (CET)" for me.

If this doesn't work for you for some reasons you might want to try to use new Date(); e.g. date = new Date(date);