// I am trying to convert milliseconds into a date that looks like: Oct 04, 2013. I converted milliseconds into a date object with:
var d1 = new Date(milliseconds);
which then outputs something like:
Fri Oct 04 2013 13:59:31 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
If I use getMonth() , getDate(), and getFullYear() the output bees 9 4 2013
How do I get the month either a full name (October) or shortened to three characters (Oct)?
I am trying to convert milliseconds into a date that looks like: Oct 04, 2013. I converted milliseconds into a date object with:
var d1 = new Date(milliseconds);
which then outputs something like:
Fri Oct 04 2013 13:59:31 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
If I use getMonth() , getDate(), and getFullYear() the output bees 9 4 2013
How do I get the month either a full name (October) or shortened to three characters (Oct)?
Share Improve this question asked Apr 4, 2014 at 18:02 Jordan.J.DJordan.J.D 8,11311 gold badges50 silver badges79 bronze badges 2- 4 get month names from date – Will N Commented Apr 4, 2014 at 18:05
- 2 Either create your own lookup table or find a date library. – Jasen Commented Apr 4, 2014 at 18:07
4 Answers
Reset to default 6Please take a look at Moment.js. It provides all date conversions that you could possibly need.
With Moment.js, you would do this:
moment(milliseconds).format('MMM DD, YYYY');
Here is a full format table for use with moment objects: http://momentjs./docs/#/displaying/format/
If you do not want to use a library, one solution to showing 'written' months would be to create an array containing all month names:
var monthName = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun",
"Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"];
From there, you can use this array to display the month name in a string:
var d1 = new Date(milliseconds),
d = d1.getDate(),
m = d1.getMonth(),
y = d1.getFullYear();
var dateString = monthName[m] + " " + d + " " + y; // Oct 4 2013
Months in javascript start at zero so getMonth() on a February date will return 1 for example.
The best choice would be d1.toDateString().
Other than that there is no StringFormat for Dates in JavaScript.