Getting current date and time in JavaScript

javascript date time concatenation

I have a script that prints the current date and time in JavaScript, but the DATE is always wrong. Here is the code:

var currentdate = new Date();
var datetime = "Last Sync: " + currentdate.getDay() + "/" + currentdate.getMonth() 
+ "/" + currentdate.getFullYear() + " @ " 
+ currentdate.getHours() + ":" 
+ currentdate.getMinutes() + ":" + currentdate.getSeconds();

It should print 18/04/2012 15:07:33 and prints 3/3/2012 15:07:33

In general, you should endeavor to read the documentation of the APIs you are using. Here is some documentation for Javascript Date objects: developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/…. Everything you need to know to fix your problem can been found there.

possible duplicate of How to get current date in JavaScript

I think JavaScript will get the current date and time from System. Hence, set the current date and time in your Computer.

People always complain about certain questions but there are very few questions on SO that couldn't be answered by reading documentation. I love this site because it has concise answers and examples of how to do what I'm trying to do, exactly like this question does.

when people google they get here instead of the api doc, is it so bad to share the knowledge without making people feed bad ?

Mark Walters

.getMonth() returns a zero-based number so to get the correct month you need to add 1, so calling .getMonth() in may will return 4 and not 5.

So in your code we can use currentdate.getMonth()+1 to output the correct value. In addition:

.getDate() returns the day of the month <- this is the one you want

.getDay() is a separate method of the Date object which will return an integer representing the current day of the week (0-6) 0 == Sunday etc

so your code should look like this:

var currentdate = new Date(); 
var datetime = "Last Sync: " + currentdate.getDate() + "/"
                + (currentdate.getMonth()+1)  + "/" 
                + currentdate.getFullYear() + " @ "  
                + currentdate.getHours() + ":"  
                + currentdate.getMinutes() + ":" 
                + currentdate.getSeconds();

JavaScript Date instances inherit from Date.prototype. You can modify the constructor's prototype object to affect properties and methods inherited by JavaScript Date instances

You can make use of the Date prototype object to create a new method which will return today's date and time. These new methods or properties will be inherited by all instances of the Date object thus making it especially useful if you need to re-use this functionality.

// For todays date;
Date.prototype.today = function () { 
    return ((this.getDate() < 10)?"0":"") + this.getDate() +"/"+(((this.getMonth()+1) < 10)?"0":"") + (this.getMonth()+1) +"/"+ this.getFullYear();
}

// For the time now
Date.prototype.timeNow = function () {
     return ((this.getHours() < 10)?"0":"") + this.getHours() +":"+ ((this.getMinutes() < 10)?"0":"") + this.getMinutes() +":"+ ((this.getSeconds() < 10)?"0":"") + this.getSeconds();
}

You can then simply retrieve the date and time by doing the following:

var newDate = new Date();
var datetime = "LastSync: " + newDate.today() + " @ " + newDate.timeNow();

Or call the method inline so it would simply be -

var datetime = "LastSync: " + new Date().today() + " @ " + new Date().timeNow();

Small change for 12 hour days & AM/PM

Date.prototype.timeNow = function(){ return ((this.getHours() < 10)?"0":"") + ((this.getHours()>12)?(this.getHours()-12):this.getHours()) +":"+ ((this.getMinutes() < 10)?"0":"") + this.getMinutes() +":"+ ((this.getSeconds() < 10)?"0":"") + this.getSeconds() + ((this.getHours()>12)?('PM'):'AM'); };

@RobertSpeer nice suggestion. I have written a more usable method of the date object since last updating this post which I call now() which takes a boolean parameter to determine whether to return just the date or both date and time, and also a second paramater which specifies the format which the date should be returned in i.e dd/mm/yyyy etc.

Notice that times like 00:04:02 will be rendered like 0:4:2 in the first suggestion, which is not what was asked for. To fix this, one could add the ternary operators of the second suggestion:

(date.getHours() < 10 ? "0" : "") + date.getHours() + ":" + (date.getMinutes() < 10 ? "0" : "") + date.getMinutes() + ":" + (date.getSeconds() < 10 ? "0" : "") + date.getSeconds();

Perhaps a bit nitty-gritty; but shouldn't the timestamp be stored in a temporary object to avoid the current date/time changing during the retrieval / print methods?

Update: ('0' + this.getDate()).slice(-2) seems like shorter than (this.getDate() < 10)?"0":"") + this.getDate()

Matthias Braun

To get time and date you should use

    new Date().toLocaleString();

>> "09/08/2014, 2:35:56 AM"

To get only the date you should use

    new Date().toLocaleDateString();

>> "09/08/2014"

To get only the time you should use

    new Date().toLocaleTimeString();

>> "2:35:56 AM"

Or if you just want the time in the format hh:mm without AM/PM for US English

    new Date().toLocaleTimeString('en-US', { hour12: false, 
                                             hour: "numeric", 
                                             minute: "numeric"});
>> "02:35"

or for British English

    new Date().toLocaleTimeString('en-GB', { hour: "numeric", 
                                             minute: "numeric"});

>> "02:35"

Read more here.

this works in most browsers, but you can check the compatibility here

too bad you can't get micro/milliseconds easily with this

Plus one. I was looking for a way to keep both digits. I was using getHours() and getMinutes() before, but then you don't get the format, 01, only 1.

centralhubb.com

For true mysql style output use this function below: 2019/02/28 15:33:12

If you click the 'Run code snippet' button below

It will show you an simple realtime digital clock example

The demo will appear below the code snippet.

Steve

Just use:

var d = new Date();
document.write(d.toLocaleString());
document.write("<br>");

Also something similar: toUTCString(). Refer to developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/…, where the is a list of similar functions on side bar of it.

Kamil Kiełczewski

Short

I develop Steve answer to get exactly what OP need

new Date().toLocaleString().replace(',','')

console.log(new Date().toLocaleString().replace(',',''));

Chuck Norris

var currentdate = new Date();

    var datetime = "Last Sync: " + currentdate.getDate() + "/"+(currentdate.getMonth()+1) 
    + "/" + currentdate.getFullYear() + " @ " 
    + currentdate.getHours() + ":" 
    + currentdate.getMinutes() + ":" + currentdate.getSeconds();

Change .getDay() method to .GetDate() and add one to month, because it counts months from 0.

sp00m

This should do the trick:

function dateToString(date) {
    var month = date.getMonth() + 1;
    var day = date.getDate();
    var dateOfString = (("" + day).length < 2 ? "0" : "") + day + "/";
    dateOfString += (("" + month).length < 2 ? "0" : "") + month + "/";
    dateOfString += date.getFullYear();
    return dateOfString;
}

var currentdate = new Date();
var datetime = "Last Sync: ";
datetime += dateToString(currentdate );
datetime += + currentdate.getHours() + ":"
            + currentdate.getMinutes() + ":"
            + currentdate.getSeconds();

Minutes and seconds should be extended to have 2 digits, like it is done at days and months.

Girish Mahadevan

Basic JS (good to learn): we use the Date() function and do all that we need to show the date and day in our custom format.

Node JS (quick & easy): Install the npm pagckage using (npm install date-and-time), then run the below.

let nodeDate = require('date-and-time');
let now = nodeDate.format(new Date(), 'DD-MMMM-YYYY, hh:mm:ss a');
console.log(now);

JoyGuru

I have found the simplest way to get current date and time in JavaScript from here - How to get current Date and Time using JavaScript

var today = new Date();
var date = today.getFullYear()+'-'+(today.getMonth()+1)+'-'+today.getDate();
var time = today.getHours() + ":" + today.getMinutes() + ":" + today.getSeconds();
var CurrentDateTime = date+' '+time;

gen_Eric

getDay() gets the day of the week. 3 is Wednesday. You want getDate(), that will return 18.

Also getMonth() starts at 0, you need to add 1 to get 4 (April).

DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/4zVxp/

Scorpion-Prince

You need to use getDate() to get the date part. The getDay() function returns the day number (Sunday = 0, Monday = 1...), and the getMonth() returns a 0 based index, so you need to increment it by 1.

 var currentdate = new Date(); 

 var datetime = "Last Sync: " + currentdate.getDate() + "/"+  (parseInt(currentdate.getMonth())    + 1)
   + "/" + currentdate.getFullYear() + " @ "  
   + currentdate.getHours() + ":"  
   + currentdate.getMinutes() + ":" + currentdate.getSeconds();

Nis023

const date = new Date()
console.log(date.toLocaleTimeString("en-us", {timeStyle: "medium"})) // Only Time 
console.log(date.toLocaleString()) // For both Date and Time

For Documentation

Anthon

function getTimeStamp() {
       var now = new Date();
       return ((now.getMonth() + 1) + '/' + (now.getDate()) + '/' + now.getFullYear() + " " + now.getHours() + ':'
                     + ((now.getMinutes() < 10) ? ("0" + now.getMinutes()) : (now.getMinutes())) + ':' + ((now.getSeconds() < 10) ? ("0" + now
                     .getSeconds()) : (now.getSeconds())));
}

surendar

get current date and time

var now = new Date(); 
  var datetime = now.getFullYear()+'/'+(now.getMonth()+1)+'/'+now.getDate(); 
  datetime += ' '+now.getHours()+':'+now.getMinutes()+':'+now.getSeconds();

baao

This question is quite old and the answers are too. Instead of those monstrous functions, we now can use moment.js to get the current date, which actually makes it very easy. All that has to be done is including moment.js in our project and get a well formated date, for example, by:

moment().format("dddd, MMMM Do YYYY, h:mm:ss a");

I think that makes it way easier to handle dates in javascript.

Animesh Raj

Short and simple:-

console.log(new Date().toLocaleString());

Reference

This has already been mentioned in other answers, this one for example.

Oleg V. Volkov

.getDay returns day of week. You need .getDate instead. .getMonth returns values from 0 to 11. You'll need to add 1 to the result to get "human" month number.

Varoon Ramtahal

This little code is easy and works everywhere.

<p id="dnt"></p>
<script>
document.getElementById("dnt").innerHTML = Date();
</script>

there is room to design

philippe

function UniqueDateTime(format='',language='en-US'){
    //returns a meaningful unique number based on current time, and milliseconds, making it virtually unique
    //e.g : 20170428-115833-547
    //allows personal formatting like more usual :YYYYMMDDHHmmSS, or YYYYMMDD_HH:mm:SS
    var dt = new Date();
    var modele="YYYYMMDD-HHmmSS-mss";
    if (format!==''){
      modele=format;
    }
    modele=modele.replace("YYYY",dt.getFullYear());
    modele=modele.replace("MM",(dt.getMonth()+1).toLocaleString(language, {minimumIntegerDigits: 2, useGrouping:false}));
    modele=modele.replace("DD",dt.getDate().toLocaleString(language, {minimumIntegerDigits: 2, useGrouping:false}));
    modele=modele.replace("HH",dt.getHours().toLocaleString(language, {minimumIntegerDigits: 2, useGrouping:false}));
    modele=modele.replace("mm",dt.getMinutes().toLocaleString(language, {minimumIntegerDigits: 2, useGrouping:false}));
    modele=modele.replace("SS",dt.getSeconds().toLocaleString(language, {minimumIntegerDigits: 2, useGrouping:false}));
    modele=modele.replace("mss",dt.getMilliseconds().toLocaleString(language, {minimumIntegerDigits: 3, useGrouping:false}));
    return modele;
}

GraninDm

dt= new Date();
alert(dt.toISOString().substring(8,10) + "/" + 
dt.toISOString().substring(5,7)+ "/" + 
dt.toISOString().substring(0,4) + " " + 
dt.toTimeString().substring(0,8))

Please include explanation of what your code does and how it answers the question. If you get a code snippet as an answer, you may not know what to do with it. Answer should give the OP and future visitors guidance on how to debug and fix their problem. Pointing out, what the idea behind your code is, greatly helps in understanding the issue and applying or modifying your solution.

It is primitive for you and now. What about in a year? What about for somebody who does not read JavaScript as fluently as you do? I suggest you add something along the lines of Use new instance of Date. Parse date components from toISOString() and add time from toTimeString()..

This approach is not an optimal one. Hard to read the code, involves unnecessary parsing. E.g. toISOString().substring(8,10) is the same as getFullYear().

Angel Politis

var datetime = new Date().toLocaleString().slice(0,9) +" "+new Date(new Date()).toString().split(' ')[4];
console.log(datetime);

Shivam Gupta

I think i am very late to share my answer, but i think it will be worth.

function __getCurrentDateTime(format){
    var dt=new Date(),x,date=[];
    date['d']=dt.getDate();
    date['dd']=dt.getDate()>10?dt.getDate():'0'+dt.getDate();
    date['m']=dt.getMonth()+1;
    date['mm']=(dt.getMonth()+1)>10?(dt.getMonth()+1):'0'+(dt.getMonth()+1);
    date['yyyy']=dt.getFullYear();
    date['yy']=dt.getFullYear().toString().slice(-2);
    date['h']=(dt.getHours()>12?dt.getHours()-12:dt.getHours());
    date['hh']=dt.getHours();
    date['mi']=dt.getMinutes();
    date['mimi']=dt.getMinutes()<10?('0'+dt.getMinutes()):dt.getMinutes();
    date['s']=dt.getSeconds();
    date['ss']=dt.getSeconds()<10?('0'+dt.getSeconds()):dt.getSeconds();
    date['sss']=dt.getMilliseconds();
    date['ampm']=(dt.getHours()>=12?'PM':'AM');
    x=format.toLowerCase();
    x=x.indexOf('dd')!=-1?x.replace(/(dd)/i,date['dd']):x.replace(/(d)/i,date['d']);
    x=x.indexOf('mm')!=-1?x.replace(/(mm)/i,date['mm']):x.replace(/(m)/i,date['m']);
    x=x.indexOf('yyyy')!=-1?x.replace(/(yyyy)/i,date['yyyy']):x.replace(/(yy)/i,date['yy']);
    x=x.indexOf('hh')!=-1?x.replace(/(hh)/i,date['hh']):x.replace(/(h)/i,date['h']);
    x=x.indexOf('mimi')!=-1?x.replace(/(mimi)/i,date['mimi']):x.replace(/(mi)/i,date['mi']);
    if(x.indexOf('sss')!=-1){   x=x.replace(/(sss)/i,date['sss']);  }
    x=x.indexOf('ss')!=-1?x.replace(/(ss)/i,date['ss']):x.replace(/(s)/i,date['s']);
    if(x.indexOf('ampm')!=-1){  x=x.replace(/(ampm)/i,date['ampm']);    }
    return x;
}

console.log(__getCurrentDateTime());  //returns in dd-mm-yyyy HH:MM:SS
console.log(__getCurrentDateTime('dd-mm-yyyy'));    //return in 05-12-2016
console.log(__getCurrentDateTime('dd/mm*yyyy'));    //return in 05/12*2016
console.log(__getCurrentDateTime('hh:mimi:ss'));    //return in 13:05:30

console.log(__getCurrentDateTime('h:mi:ss ampm')); //return in 1:5:30 PM

Bjorn Ahlstedt

I needed to figure this out for a slate in after effects. Here's what I came up with after taking elements from a few different sources -- Formatting is MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM AM/PM

D = new Date(Date(00));
M = D.getMonth()+1;
H = D.getHours();
Mi = D.getMinutes();

N = "AM"
if (H >= 12)
N = "PM"
if (H > 12)
{
H = H-12
}

amtOfZeroes = 2;
isNeg = false;

if (M < 0)
{
M = Math.abs(M);
isNeg = true;
}
Mo = Math.round(M) + "";
while(Mo.length < amtOfZeroes)
{

Mo = "0" + Mo; 
}
if (isNeg)
Mo = "-" + Mo;

if (H < 0)
{
H = Math.abs(H);
isNeg = true;
}
Ho = Math.round(H) + "";
while(Ho.length < amtOfZeroes)
{
Ho = "0" + Ho; 
}
if (isNeg)
Ho = "-" + Ho;

if (Mi < 0)
{
Mi = Math.abs(Mi);
isNeg = true;
}
Min = Math.round(Mi) + "";
while(Min.length < amtOfZeroes)
{
Min = "0" + Min; 
}
if (isNeg)
Min = "-" + Min;

T = Ho + ":" + (Min)

Mo + "/" + D.getDate() + "/" + D.getFullYear() + "  " + T + " " + N

Aman Lalpuria

If someone is in search of function

console.log(formatAMPM());
function formatAMPM() {
  var date = new Date();
  var hours = date.getHours();
  var minutes = date.getMinutes();
  var seconds = date.getSeconds();
  var ampm = hours >= 12 ? 'PM' : 'AM';
  hours = hours % 12;
  hours = hours ? hours : 12; // the hour '0' should be '12'
  minutes = minutes < 10 ? '0'+minutes : minutes;
  return strTime = date.getMonth() + '/' + date.getDay()+'/'+date.getFullYear()+' '+ hours + ':' + minutes +':'+ seconds + " " +ampm;
}

Remi Guan

function display_c(){   
    var refresh = 1000; // Refresh rate in milli seconds    
    mytime = setTimeout('display_ct()', refresh)    
}

function display_ct() {

    var strcount    
    var currentdate = new Date();

    document.getElementById('ct').innerHTML = currentdate.toDateString() + " " + currentdate.getHours() + ":" + currentdate.getMinutes() + ":" + currentdate.getSeconds();

    tt = display_c();   
}


id = 'ct'     // Replace in Your id

onload = "display_ct();"     // Type inside a Body Tag

Ronnie Royston

My well intended answer is to use this tiny bit of JS: https://github.com/rhroyston/clock-js

clock.now   --> 1462248501241
clock.time  --> 11:08 PM
clock.weekday   --> monday
clock.day   --> 2
clock.month --> may
clock.year  --> 2016
clock.since(1462245888784)  --> 44 minutes
clock.until(1462255888784)  --> 2 hours
clock.what.time(1462245888784)  --> 10:24 PM
clock.what.weekday(1461968554458)   --> friday
clock.what.day('14622458887 84')    --> 2
clock.what.month(1461968554458) --> april
clock.what.year('1461968554458')    --> 2016
clock.what.time()   --> 11:11 PM
clock.what.weekday('14619685abcd')  -->     clock.js error : expected unix timestamp as argument
clock.unit.seconds  --> 1000
clock.unit.minutes  --> 60000
clock.unit.hours    --> 3600000
clock.unit.days --> 86400000
clock.unit.weeks    --> 604800000
clock.unit.months   --> 2628002880
clock.unit.years    --> 31536000000

Abhilash Thomas

Its simple and superb

$(document).ready(function () { var fpsOut = document.getElementById('myTime'); setInterval(function () { var d = new Date(); fpsOut.innerHTML = d; }, 1000); });

please find the below fiddler for the example

http://jsfiddle.net/4zVxp/483/

ABDULRAHMAN ALKHAMEES

Here is my work around clock full format with day, date, year and time and make Sure the date of your PC is set to the right date and if you are using PHP make sure in php.ini date.timezone= xx where xx your current timezone

pankaj

This example of UK Time Zone.. set offset for specific Time Zone. Example : for India : +05:30 , UK : +1

 function realUKTime() {
        // create Date object for current location
        var d = new Date();
        offset ='+1';
       
        // convert to msec
        // subtract local time zone offset
        // get UTC time in msec
        var utc = d.getTime() + (d.getTimezoneOffset() * 60000);

        // create new Date object for different city
        // using supplied offset
        var nd = new Date(utc + (3600000*offset));

        // return time as a string
        var s = nd.getSeconds();
        var i = nd.getMinutes();
        var h = nd.getHours();
        var cDate =  nd.getDate();
        var m =  nd.getUTCMonth();
        var y = nd.getFullYear();

       var newUkTime = nd.toDateString() + " "+ (Number(h)-1)+":"+i+':'+s
        $("#realTime").html(newUkTime);

    }

    setInterval(realUKTime(),1000);

Output :: Mon Dec 27 2021 12:6:3

Gurpreet.Singh

Check this out may be it will work for you

<script language="JavaScript">
var dayarray=new Array("Sunday","Monday",
 "Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday")

var montharray=new Array("January","February","March",
 "April","May","June","July","August","September",
 "October","November","December")

function getthedate(){
var mydate=new Date()
var year=mydate.getYear()
if (year < 1000)
year+=1900
var day=mydate.getDay()
var month=mydate.getMonth()
var daym=mydate.getDate()
if (daym<10)
daym="0"+daym
var hours=mydate.getHours()
var minutes=mydate.getMinutes()
var seconds=mydate.getSeconds()
var dn="AM"
if (hours>=12)
dn="PM"
if (hours>12){
hours=hours-12
}
if (hours==0)
hours=12
if (minutes<=9)
minutes="0"+minutes
if (seconds<=9)
seconds="0"+seconds
//change font size here
var cdate="<small><font color='000000' face='Arial'><b>"+dayarray[day]+", 
    "+montharray[month]+" "+daym+", "+year+" "+hours+":"
 +minutes+":"+seconds+" "+dn
    +"</b></font></small>"
if (document.all)
document.all.clock.innerHTML=cdate
else if (document.getElementById)
document.getElementById("clock").innerHTML=cdate
else
document.write(cdate)
}
 if (!document.all&&!document.getElementById)
  getthedate()
  function goforit(){
  if (document.all||document.getElementById)
 setInterval("getthedate()",1000)
}

 </script>

enter code here

 <span id="clock"></span>

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