Reformatting the javascript locale date

[neo2020]

Hi all,

The format of the date given by the javascript date.toLocaleDateString() is not what I want, is it possible to reformat it?

Currently, my locale is under US. The date.toLocaleDateString() showing Wednesday, July 18, 2007, will it be possible to format it to July 18, 2007 (MM dd, yyyy)?


Thanks

[pbmods]

Heya, neo2020. Welcome to TSDN!

You can't change the output of Date::toLocaleString(). But you can access individual elements of the date.

[neo2020]

Heya, neo2020. Welcome to TSDN!

You can't change the output of Date::toLocaleString(). But you can access individual elements of the date.

Hi pbmods, thanks for ur quick reply.

Hmm, so that's mean in order to achieve what I want to do, i have to retrieve user browser locale info, and customize the date format accordingly?

Thanks

[acoder]

Hi pbmods, thanks for ur quick reply.

Hmm, so that's mean in order to achieve what I want to do, i have to retrieve user browser locale info, and customize the date format accordingly?

Thanks

If you want to output the date in a certain format, why not use the Date methods to get the date, month and year and make your own string version (for month, you can create an array of the month names), e.g.

var today = new Date();
var d = today.getDate();
var m = today.getMonth();
var y = today.getFullYear();
var months = new Array("January", "February",...);
datestr = months[m] + " " + d + ", " + y;

[neo2020]

If you want to output the date in a certain format, why not use the Date methods to get the date, month and year and make your own string version (for month, you can create an array of the month names), e.g.

var today = new Date();
var d = today.getDate();
var m = today.getMonth();
var y = today.getFullYear();
var months = new Array("January", "February",...);
datestr = months[m] + " " + d + ", " + y;

Hi acoder, thanks for ur reply.

The user of the application may from different locale. eg some from US, some from UK. The default output date string for US locale is too long, and I want to reduce the length to only include MM dd yyyy. From my previous post, what I am trying to say is I only can base on the user locale retrieve via javascript , and provide the custom format of the date string?

[acoder]

Hi acoder, thanks for ur reply.

The user of the application may from different locale. eg some from US, some from UK. The default output date string for US locale is too long, and I want to reduce the length to only include MM dd yyyy. From my previous post, what I am trying to say is I only can base on the user locale retrieve via javascript , and provide the custom format of the date string?

Oh, in that case, parse the string. Look for the first comma and get the string after that.