How do I format a Javascript Date object as a string? (Preferable format: 10-Aug-2010)

Oct 7, 2009 · Use new Date() to generate a new Date object containing the current date and time.

Detecting a Date type object (as opposed to a plain Object or a string) and validating an object you expect to be a Date are two different tasks. There are a number of situations where the …

Feb 19, 2009 · How to add days to current Date using JavaScript? Does JavaScript have a built in function like .NET's AddDay()?

Can someone suggest a way to compare the values of two dates greater than, less than, and not in the past using JavaScript? The values will be coming from text boxes.

Apr 10, 2012 · I am looking for a function to convert date in one timezone to another. It need two parameters, date (in format "2012/04/10 10:10:30 +0000") timezone string ("Asia/Jakarta") The …

I have date time in a particular timezone as a string and I want to convert this to the local time. But, I don't know how to set the timezone in the Date object. For example, I have Feb 28 2013 …

The date on which the DST change happens will have a duration in milliseconds which is != 1000*60*60*24, so the typical calculation will fail. You can work around this by first normalizing …

How can I convert a string to a Date object in JavaScript? var st = "date in some format" var dt = new Date (); var dt_st = // st in Date format, same as dt.

This Stack Overflow thread provides solutions for formatting JavaScript dates as yyyy-mm-dd.