change date format from jquery

Question

I have this date, that I get from jquery

Wed Oct 30 2013 09:05:17 GMT-0800 (Hora estándar Pacífico (México))

that I get this function

Answer 1

A couple of options.

If you're OK with including jQueryUI: $("#vigencia_receta_11").val($.datepicker.formatDate('dd/M/yy', nd));

Otherwise, the jQuery dateFormat plugin does something similar: $("#vigencia_receta_11").val($.format.date(nd, 'dd/M/yy'));

Answer 2

I did like the following code:

function myDateFormatter ("pass your date here") {
        var d = new Date(dateObject);
        var day = d.getDate();
        var month = d.getMonth() + 1;
        var year = d.getFullYear();
        if (day < 10) {
            day = "0" + day;
        }
        if (month < 10) {
            month = "0" + month;
        }
        var date = day + "/" + month + "/" + year;

        return date;
    }; 

Answer 3

The date object has functions for getting access to the individual date components. You can use:

$('#vigencia_receta_11').val((nd.getMonth() + 1) + "/" + nd.getDate() + "/" + nd.getFullYear());

Note that getMonth() returns a zero-indexed date, so you'll need to add 1 to get it to a human-readable date format.