Convert javascript generated date string to different string in JS or PHP

Question

everyone

my problem is that my JS code generates date in format

"Thu Jan 10 2013 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (FLE Standard Time)"

and I need to convert it to format like this

"2013-01-10"

either in JS or PHP, because I'm storing dates in DB in this format. My first thought was to convert it to timestamp, then timestamp convert to new date string, but date or string functions can't read that kind of date format, so propably need to pregreplace some things and thats it.

Answer 1

Read about php strtotime.

<?php

$date_str = "Thu Jan 10 2013 00:00:00 GMT+0200";

echo date('Y-m-d',strtotime($date_str));

Answer 2

Here is an example how you can format date in JavaScript:

function formatDate(date) {
   var year = date.getFullYear(),
       month = date.getMonth() + 1,
       day = date.getDate();
   if (month.toString().length === 1) {
      month = '0' + month;
   }
   if (day.toString().length === 1) {
      day = '0' + day;
   }
   return year + '-' + month + '-' + day;
}
formatDate(new Date("Thu Jan 10 2013 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (FLE Standard Time)"));
//"2013-01-10"

Answer 3

You can use this javascript code to get date.

<script type="text/javascript">
    var currentTime = new Date()
    var month = currentTime.getMonth() + 1
    var day = currentTime.getDate()
    var year = currentTime.getFullYear()
    document.write("" +year + "-" + month + "-" + day + "")
</script>

Answer 4

Try using date.js for conversions.

var myDate = new Date("Thu Jan 10 2013 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (FLE Standard Time)").toString('yyyy-MM-dd');
console.log(myDate); //2013-01-10

Answer 5

You could do something similar to:

var date = new Date("Thu Jan 10 2013 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (FLE Standard Time)"),
    month,
    day,
    date_string;

date_string = date.getFullYear() + '-' +
    ((month = date.getMonth() + 1) < 10 ? '0' + month : month) + '-' +
    ((day = date.getDate()) < 10 ? '0' + day : day);

date_string now holds the value of "2013-01-10".