JavaScript function for the get the formatted date of tomorrow

Question

I need a JavaScript-function which always computes the date of the next day. Then returns the date as a string, formatted in the way: dd.mm.yyyy

I wrote this code:

const getDateStringForTomorrow = () => {
    const millisOfDay = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;
    const oTomorrow = new Date(Date.now() + millisOfDay);
    const day = ("0" + oTomorrow.getDate()).slice(-2);
    const month = ("0" + (oTomorrow.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2);
    const year = oTomorrow.getFullYear();

    return `${day}.${month}.${year}`;
};

console.log(getDateStringForTomorrow());

Can I expect my function to work as expected and to provide correct results?

What't your opinion about the way I have written the function? To you think it's overly verbose?

Answer 1

With Intl.DateTimeFormat you can also format the date elements to 2 and 4 digits. You code would then look something like this:

const getDateStringForTomorrow = () => {
  const tomorrow = new Date();
  tomorrow.setDate(tomorrow.getDate() + 1);
  const day   = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en', { day: '2-digit' }).format(tomorrow);
  const month = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en', { month: '2-digit' }).format(tomorrow);
  const year  = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en', { year: 'numeric' }).format(tomorrow);
  return day + '.' + month + '.' + year;

};

console.log(getDateStringForTomorrow());

Another variant uses the European date format to get the order of the elements correctly and then only replaces dashes by dots:

const getDateStringForTomorrow = () => {
  const tomorrowDate = new Date();
  tomorrowDate.setDate(tomorrowDate.getDate() + 1);
  const tomorrowStr = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('uk', { day: '2-digit',  month: '2-digit', year: 'numeric' }).format(tomorrow);
  return tomorrowStr.replaceAll('-','.');

};

console.log(getDateStringForTomorrow());

The advantage of using Intl.DateTimeFormat() is that it writes out very clearly what you want.