Javascript reformat date string

Question

I have this date fromat:

Mon Feb 02 2015 05:18:44 GMT+0000 (UTC) 

How can I reformat it to something more friendlier such as 2/2/2015

Answer 1

You can pass it to Date Object:

var dateString = "Mon Feb 02 2015 05:18:44 GMT+0000 (UTC)";
var date = new Date(dateString);

date.getDate(); // > 2 (the day number)
date.getMonth(); // > 1 (the month number as 0 is January, 11 is December)

You can also find a lib to do the format job or format yourself.