How to get the current day, month, and year in JavaScript
In this short article, we’ll show you how to get the current day, month, and year in JavaScript. Here, we will use the pure vanilla JavaScript code to get the day, month year from the datetime" title="DateTime">Date object in JavaScript.
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Get the current Date object
Use the following code to get the current date object.
const today = new Date();
// Wed May 18 2022 11:17:34 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)
Get current year
`getFullYear()` – Provides current year like 2019.
today.getFullYear();
// Output: 2022
Get current month
`getMonth()` – Provides current month values 0-11. Where 0 for Jan and 11 for Dec.
today.getMonth();
// Output: 4
Get current day
`getDate()` – Provides day of the month values 1-31.
today.getDate();
// Output: 18
Get current hour
`getHours()` – Provides current hour between 0-23.
today.getHours();
// Output: 11
Get current minutes
`getMinutes()` – Provides current minutes between 0-59.
today.getMinutes();
// Output: 17
Get current seconds
`getSeconds()` – Provides current seconds between 0-59.
today.getSeconds();
// Output: 34
Get current time
Let’s combine current hours, minutes and seconds to get the current time.
today.getHours() + ":" + today.getMinutes() + ":" + today.getSeconds()
// Output: 11:17:34
That’s it for today.
Thank you for reading. Happy Coding..!! 🙂
