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

There are many ways to parse and re-format a date. Here is a very simple method that works for your date format:

var d = 'Mon Feb 02 2015 05:18:44 GMT+0000 (UTC)';
var dStr = new Date(d).toDateString();

The value of dSTr will be something like 'Sun Feb 01 2015'.