toLocaleDateString() is not returning dd/mm/yyyy format

Question

Hi I have used toLocaleDateString() to display a date from a rss feed,t its not showing dd/mm/yyyy format in all browser, safari and mozila its showing differently but chrome it is showing correctly.

Answer 1

toLocaleDateString is intended to provide a human-readable format, according to the rules of the user's own computer. For instance, if my computer is set to French, it might include the day name in French.

toLocaleDateString is NOT a reliable way of getting the format you want. Instead, do this:

var dateobj = new Date();
function pad(n) {return n < 10 ? "0"+n : n;}
var result = pad(dateobj.getDate())+"/"+pad(dateobj.getMonth()+1)+"/"+dateobj.getFullYear();

Answer 2

I was looking for an answer to this question, but above answers doesn't give a crip answer for converting date to dd/mm/yyyy using toLocaleDateString().

As per docs toLocaleDateString() converts a date to a string with a language sensitive representation of the date portion. This method accepts two parameters dateObj.toLocaleDateString( [locales][, options]) described below :

• locales: This parameter is an array of locale strings that contain one or more language or locale tags.Note that it is an optional parameter.If you want to use specific format of the language in your application then specify that language in the locales argument.Some parameters are:

  • en-US : US English uses month-day-year order i.e 07/17/2020
  • en-GB : British English uses day-month-year order i.e 17/07/2020
  • ko-KR : Korean uses year-month-day order i.e 2020. 07. 17.

• options: It is also an optional parameter and contains properties that specify comparison options.Some properties are localeMatcher, timeZone, weekday, year, month, day, hour, minute, second etc.

So using this here is how you can convert date to dd/mm/yyyy format:

let dateFormat=new Date().toLocaleDateString('en-GB', {
month: '2-digit',day: '2-digit',year: 'numeric'})
console.log(dateFormat)