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Formatting Dates

Display dates with toLocaleDateString options.

Formatting Dates

JavaScript provides several built-in methods to turn a date into readable text, from locale-aware output to standardized ISO strings.

const d = new Date(Date.UTC(2024, 0, 15))
console.log(d.toISOString())

toISOString

toISOString returns a standardized string in UTC, ideal for storage and data exchange because it is unambiguous.

const d = new Date(Date.UTC(2024, 0, 15, 10, 30, 0))
console.log(d.toISOString())

All lessons in this course

  1. Creating and Reading Dates
  2. Timestamps and Date Math
  3. Formatting Dates
  4. Time Zones and UTC
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