How to get current time in the format 2009-12-24 14:20:57 in javascript?

Question

I'm not familiar with time operations in javascript.

I tried new Date(); which gives the result in wrong format:

Thu Dec 24 2009 14:24:06 GMT+0800

How to get the time in format of 2009-12-24 14:20:57？

Answer 1

There is no cross browser Date.format() method currently. Some toolkits like Ext have one but not all (I'm pretty sure jQuery does not). If you need flexibility, you can find several such methods available on the web. If you expect to always use the same format then:

var now = new Date();
var pretty = [
  now.getFullYear(),
  '-',
  now.getMonth() + 1,
  '-',
  now.getDate(),
  ' ',
  now.getHours(),
  ':',
  now.getMinutes(),
  ':',
  now.getSeconds()
].join('');

Answer 2

<script type="text/javascript">
  function formatDate(d){
   function pad(n){return n<10 ? '0'+n : n}
   return [d.getUTCFullYear(),'-',
          pad(d.getUTCMonth()+1),'-',
          pad(d.getUTCDate()),' ',
          pad(d.getUTCHours()),':',
          pad(d.getUTCMinutes()),':',
          pad(d.getUTCSeconds())].join("");
  }

  var d = new Date();
  var formattedDate = formatDate(d); 
</script