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Ways to get a DATE πŸ˜‰

...in JAVASCRIPT πŸ˜‚

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1. Date.now()

Date.now()
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This method returns the number of milliseconds elapsed since Jan 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC.


2. getFullYear()

new Date().getFullYear()
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Get the year as a 4 digit number (yyyy).


3. getMonth()

new Date().getMonth() + 1
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Get month as a number (0-11).


4. getDay()

const day = new Date().getDay()
const days = ['Sun', 'Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thurs', 'Fri', 'Sat']
console.log(days[day])
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Get weekday as a number (0-6).


5. getDate() πŸ’•πŸ˜Ž

new Date().getDate()
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Get the day as a number (1-31).


Hope you find one soon! 😁


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people looking to handle simple date formatting should checkout github.com/lukeed/tinydate by Luke , found it a week ago