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AndreaNobili
AndreaNobili

Reputation: 42957

How can I obtain a yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm:ss string from a Date object in pure old JavaScript?

I am not so into JavaScript. I have the following problem trying to format a Date. I can use only plain old JavaScript (no third party library because this script is not performed into the browser but into a Java application using Rhino).

I created my Date object in this way:

d = new Date('2017','11','09','06','00','00');

(into the Rhino environment the Date() constructor works only in this way).

That creates a Date object like this:

Sat Dec 09 2017 06:00:00 GMT+0100 (CET)

Starting from this Date object I want to obtain a String formatted in this way:

yyyy-mm-dd HH:mm:ss

I know that doing:

d.toISOString()

I obtain

2017-12-09T05:00:00.000Z

but it contains the T and Z delimiters.

What is a smart way to do it?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1444

Answers (1)

Ori Drori
Ori Drori

Reputation: 191946

Reformat the ISO string by replace the unnecessary parts with a space, then String#trim the spaces from the end.

Thanks to @zerkms for the regex expression.

var d = new Date('2017','11','09','06','00','00');

var str = d.toISOString().replace(/T|Z|\.\d{3}/g, ' ').trim();

console.log(str);

Upvotes: 9

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