how to get local date/time format?

Question

I want to get systems local date/time format and display date from database on this same format. e.g if system date format is like Month dd/yyyy and date stored in database is mm/dd/yyyy format then I need to get local date/time format and convert my stored date into local format. HTML5 input type="date" this takes default systems date/time format and show date in same format. how can I do this with jquery or javascript.

Answer 1

You could use the JavaScript Date object:

var date = new Date(yearFromDb, monthFromDb, dayFromDb);
date.toLocaleDateString();

EDIT

It seems that the above method is not consistent between different browsers (Chrome, IE, Firefox). Therefore, I think your only option is to get the formatted date string from server side.

Here is a jsFiddle that shows a cross-browser way of getting the users locale, if you can use this to get a formatted date string in the current locale from the backend (if any).

var locale = window.navigator.userLanguage || window.navigator.language;