I am trying to get the full date with my function. Right now my results are "Wed Feb 14 2018", but I would like it to say "Wednesday February 2018". I want it to say the whole day and whole month. I could not find a "get fullDate" method unfortunately..
window.onload = function() {
var date = new Date();
document.getElementById("date").innerHTML = date.toDateString();
}<div id="date"> </div>You're actually looking for the toLocaleString function, as it can be customized pretty heavily without losing your date object.
window.onload = function() {
var date = new Date();
document.getElementById("date").innerHTML = date.toLocaleString('en-US', {weekday: 'long', month: 'long', year: 'numeric'});
}<div id="date"> </div>If you are looking for native date methods:
function dateConvert(){
let date = new Date();
let year = date.getFullYear();
let month= date.getMonth();
let day = date.getDay();
let months = ['January','February','March','April','May','June','July','August','September','October','November','December'];
let days = ['Sunday','Monday','Tuesday','Wednesday','Thursday','Friday','Saturday'];
return converted_date = `${days[day]} ${months[month]} ${year}`;
}
document.write(dateConvert());As you have noticed, the native Date methods are a bit limited. There are a handful of roll-your-own approaches and if this is all you need then that is probably what you should use. If you need something more robust I would recommend a library to avoid running over many pitfalls in attempting to handle the craziness of formatting time correctly.
A very popular library is called momentjs. A very simple solution for your issue is to use their format method:
const date = new Date();
document.getElementById("date").innerHTML = moment().format("dddd MMMM YYYY");<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.20.1/moment.min.js"></script>
<div id="date"> </div>Hope this helps!