Junior Developer Central JS Practice Exercise - 04

 

Question: 

Write a Javascript program to get the current date

Output:

mm-dd-yyyy

mm/dd/yyyy

dd-mm-yyyy

dd/mm/yyyy

Answer: 

function formatDate () {

let date = new Date(); 

let day = date.getDate(); 

let month = date.getMonth() + 1; 

let year = date.getFullYear(); 

let opt1 = `${month}-${day}-${year}`;

let opt2 = `${month}/${day}/${year}`;

let opt3 = `${day}-${month}-${year}`;

let opt4 = `${day}/${month}/${year}`;

console.log(opt1);

console.log(opt2);

console.log(opt3);

console.log(opt4);

};

> we declare a function 'formatDate'

> it has no parameters

> we declare various variables and initialize it with different type of date objects and methods

>> 'date' = new Date ();   ===>>> this will return the date object as it is a constructor

>> 'day' = date.getDate(); ===>>> this method will return the day of the month

>> 'month' = date.getMonth(); ===>>> this method will return the month (0 to 11)

        we shall add 1 as January is 0, February is 1 and so on

>> 'year' = date.getFullYear(); ===>>> this method returns the year

> we then use template literals and save them in different variables as we have multiple outputs

> finally we console log the variables to get our desired output of date in different formats