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    <p>I noticed that JavaScript's <code>new Date()</code> function is very smart in accepting dates in several formats.</p> <pre><code>Xmas95 = new Date("25 Dec, 1995 23:15:00") Xmas95 = new Date("2009 06 12,12:52:39") Xmas95 = new Date("20 09 2006,12:52:39") </code></pre> <p>I could not find documentation anywhere showing all the valid string formats while calling <code>new Date()</code> function.</p> <p>This is for converting a string to a date. If we look at the opposite side, that is, converting a date object to a string, until now I was under the impression that JavaScript doesn't have a built-in API to format a date object into a string.</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Editor's note:</strong> The following approach is the asker's attempt that worked on a particular browser but does <em>not</em> work in general; <strong>see the answers on this page</strong> to see some actual solutions.</p> </blockquote> <p>Today, I played with the <code>toString()</code> method on the date object and surprisingly it serves the purpose of formatting date to strings.</p> <pre><code>var d1 = new Date(); d1.toString('yyyy-MM-dd'); //Returns "2009-06-29" in Internet Explorer, but not Firefox or Chrome d1.toString('dddd, MMMM ,yyyy') //Returns "Monday, June 29,2009" in Internet Explorer, but not Firefox or Chrome </code></pre> <p>Also here I couldn't find any documentation on all the ways we can format the date object into a string.</p> <p>Where is the documentation which lists the format specifiers supported by the <code>Date()</code> object?</p>
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    1. COyour examples don't actually work the way you think they do: http://jsfiddle.net/edelman/WDNVk/1/
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    2. COSorry, passing format strings in toString works in .NET, and it may work in Java, but as Jason pointed out, this doesn't actually work in Javascript.
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    3. COFolks remember - questions, no matter how canonical, *need to remain questions*. Please refrain from any edit that turns this question into an answer, refine and maintain the _answers_ instead. Thanks :)
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