i have a javascript method that takes a date:
convert(new Date("02/20/2010");
how can i let convert return "02/20/2010" as a string?
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A:
d=new Date("02/20/2010");
(d.getMonth()+1) + "/" + d.getDate() + "/" + d.getFullYear();
2/20/2010
or just print it without passing it to Date constructor?
alert("02/20/2010")
S.Mark
2010-04-22 09:40:45
yeah i tried this , and i noticed that the month is always giving me an answer < the actual month by 1!! y is that? y did u put +1 to the month?
scatman
2010-04-22 09:44:09
That is by design actually, month starts from 0 (Zero), more info [here](http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_getmonth.asp "w3schools Date getMonth")
S.Mark
2010-04-22 09:45:48
The month is 0 indexed. 0 is January. 11 is December. It's just the way it is :)
Matt
2010-04-22 09:46:13
aaa i c.. thx:)
scatman
2010-04-22 09:50:11
A:
The output of Date("02/20/2010") is something like Thu Apr 22 2010 15:15:51 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time) which by itself is string.
There are some in-built Date/Time manipulation functions which might be of use to you
toDateString() method
d=new Date("02/20/2010");
d.toDateString();
==> Tue Feb 02 2010
d.toUTCString() => Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:30:00 GMT
But if "02/20/2010" is what you want as output, you can go with the above answers.
By the way why do you want a method that gives out the output same as the input ?
Shoaib
2010-04-22 10:03:57