Format javascript current date and time [duplicate]

Question

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How do I display a date/time in the user's locale format and time offset?

Hi - simple question - I just want to take this:

document.getElementById("time").innerHTML= new Date();

and format it into something legible, like this:

May 18, 2011 7:45 AM

making sure it is localized to whomever might be seeing it. Currently, it prints out as this:

Wed May 18 2011 07:46:25 GMT-0400 (EDT)

How do I do this?

Answer 1

Steven Levithan's dateFormat() (only 1.2KB when minified and gziped!) should do just what you need.

Javascript

// Formatting in: May 18, 2011 7:45 AM
var formattedDate = new Date().format('mmm dd, yyyy h:mm TT');

document.getElementById("time").innerHTML= formattedDate;