how to display current month, year in javascript using div

Question

I'm trying to get a jquery or java-script code for displaying the current month and year in a div, but unable so far. I mean I want to display the current month and year in this format:October 2012 so that every month I don't need to edit it or anything.

I saw many questions here, but none shows how to display the variable in a div.

Any idea how to accomplish that?

Your help and ideas are much appreciated

Answer 1

JavaScript doesn't natively implement strftime, so you'll have to do something a bit less elegant:

window.onload = function() {
    var months = ['January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December'];;
    var date = new Date();

    document.getElementById('date').innerHTML = months[date.getMonth()] + ' ' + date.getFullYear();
};

I'm assuming that you have an element with an id of date somewhere in your HTML.

Answer 2

there's no inbuild function in javascript to get full name of month. You can create an array of month names and use it to get full month name for e.g

var m_names = ['January', 'February', 'March', 
               'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 
               'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December'];

d = new Date();
var n = m_names[d.getMonth()]; 

Answer 3

Get current Date, month, year or ETC....

new Date().getDate()          // Get the day as a number (1-31)
new Date().getDay()           // Get the weekday as a number (0-6)
new Date().getFullYear()      // Get the four digit year (yyyy)
new Date().getHours()         // Get the hour (0-23)
new Date().getMilliseconds()  // Get the milliseconds (0-999)
new Date().getMinutes()       // Get the minutes (0-59)
new Date().getMonth()         // Get the month (0-11)
new Date().getSeconds()       // Get the seconds (0-59)
new Date().getTime()          // Get the time (milliseconds since January 1, 1970)

Answer 4

Look at moment() http://momentjs.com

moment().format('MMMM YYYY');