Format date

**parallon** · 04-04-2006, 02:50 PM

Hello all. I have a date selector, in which upon selecting the date (i.e. Jan 3, 2006), it puts it like 01/03/2006. What I am wondering is if it is possible to change it to format it like 1/3/2006? If yes, how would I do it, and what should I look for in the code so I know where to change it?

Thanks in advance,

Parallon

**Sarangan** · 04-04-2006, 04:56 PM

What kind of script is it? PHP/ASP? Or anything else?

**sharkbaitbobby** · 04-04-2006, 05:36 PM

Try this:

Code:

<html><head><title>Date</title><script type="text/Javascript">
function showdate() {
d=new Date() //Gets all the date information
myyear=d.getFullYear() //Gets the year in 4 digits, like 2006
mydate=d.getDate() //Gets the number the day is of the month
mo=d.getMonth() //Gets the month number, beginning at 0
mymonth=mo+1 //Because you don't want 1/2/2006, you want 1/3/2006
document.getElementById('datespan').innerHTML=mymonth+"/"+mydate+"/"+myyear //Changes the element with datespan for an id's innerHTML, or text inbetween the tags
//You can also try using .value for something like an <input> tag
}
</script></head><body onload="showdate()"><span id="datespan">&nbsp;</span></body></html>

If you would like to learn how to write Javascript, I highly recommend W3Schools.com. That's where I learned Javascript, and it really helped me. You can also try this and this for the Date and Time on Javascript.

**chrishirst** · 04-04-2006, 08:28 PM

Just posted some code for this at Snippet Collection as formatDate()

**parallon** · 04-27-2006, 10:45 AM

Thank you very much for your help.

Parallon