How to Display the Current Date and Time in Javascript

In this tutorial, we are going to see how to display the date and time in Javascript. In Javascript, the date and time are handled with the Date object.
 

Display the Current Date and Time in Javascript

The Date object is an object natively included in JavaScript that stores the current date and time given by the browser.

var today = new Date();

console.log(today.toString());

Fri Sep 20 2019 19:38:22 GMT+0200

console.log(today.getDate());

25

console.log(today.getMonth());

12

console.log(today.getFullYear());

2020

console.log(dt.getHours());

07

console.log(dt.getMinutes());

59

console.log(dt.getSeconds());

30

Display the current date in JavaScript

var d = new Date();
var date = d.getFullYear()+'-'+(d.getMonth()+1)+'-'+d.getDate();
console.log(date);

Output:

2020-1-20

Display the current time in JavaScript

var d = new Date();
var hours = d.getHours() + ":" + d.getMinutes() + ":" + d.getSeconds();
console.log(hours);

Output:

19:59:44

Display the current date and time in JavaScript

You can simply combine the output of the above JavaScript code into a variable like below:

var d = new Date();
var date = d.getFullYear()+'-'+(d.getMonth()+1)+'-'+d.getDate();
var hours = d.getHours() + ":" + d.getMinutes() + ":" + d.getSeconds();
var fullDate = date+' '+hours;
console.log(fullDate);

Output:

2020-1-20 19:59:44

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