How could I do DateTime.Now.Date (from C#) in JavaScript?

Question

In C# I can use

DateTime dt = DateTime.Now.Date;

This will give the current date, without the TimeSpan value ('00:00:00'). In JavaScript I did this:

var dt = new Date(new Date().getFullYear(), new Date().getMonth(), new Date().getDate());

But is so "ugly" that there must be a better, easier and clean way to do it.

Answer 1

It is not ideal, but you can do it this way...

var today = new Date();
var dateWithoutTime = new Date(today.getFullYear() , today.getMonth(), today.getDate());

There are multiple ways to make Dates in javascript. The format above will create a new Date based on "today"'s year, month, and date (think day of the month).

Technically you could also do this with a DateString, however "new Date(dateString)" is implementation dependent, and may have inconsistent behavior across different browsers.

And if making 2 Date objects makes you uncomfortable, you could always do the following:

var today = new Date();
today.setHours(0); // or today.toUTCString(0) due to timezone differences
today.setMinutes(0);
today.setSeconds(0);

Answer 2

Your solution can be slightly improved by using a variable:

var now = new Date();
var dt = new Date(now.getFullYear(), now.getMonth(), now.getDate());

However, you can use Date.js, in which case your solution is simple:

var dt = Date.today();

Read more about it in the Date.js documentation, or try it here.

Answer 3

JavaScript Date Object

Mozilla Documentation on toLocalDateString

this code will give you the date in the format mm/dd/yyyy (at least that is what it gave me, because that is my locale convention)

var today = new Date(); 
document.write(today.toLocaleDateString());

Note: var today = new Date(); is a Date object that has ToString Methods for displaying it's properties

if your local conventions are to give you yyyy/mm/dd then it should give you what you want. as w3schools says

toLocaleDateString --> Returns the date portion of a Date object as a string, using locale conventions

Code and Result of another answer doesn't look right to me

var today = new Date();
today.setHours(0); // or today.toUTCString(0) due to timezone differences
today.setMinutes(0);
today.setSeconds(0); document.write(today);

This code gives the result of

Thu Sep 19 2013 00:00:00 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time)

in Chrome

my answer gives

9/19/2013

because that is my Locale Convention, if the OP wanted yyyy/mm/dd because that is the locale convention then my answer would be correct.