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Jquery new Date - Convert to yyyy-MM-dd and use toLocaleDateString

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I have a HTML input box set to type=date

<input name=datereceived type=date class=FormDateValues id=datereceived />

I want to use Jquery to fill this input box on document load to today's date but because I am in Australia, I have to offset using GMT+10

To get the date, I do the following:

var newDate = new Date();

and then I tried to set the input box using the following:

$('#datereceived').val(newDate.toLocaleDateString());

The browser tells me that for type=date, the format must be set to yyyy-MM-dd and not the Australian time format of dd/MM/yyyy.

I am not sure how to go about enforcing the toLocaleDateString AND converting the date to yyyy-MM-dd.

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answered 9 Years ago nestorjarettg · Accepted Answer

Try using String.prototype.split() , Array.prototype.splice() , Array.prototype.join()

// create array of values returned by `.toLocaleDateString()`,

// delimited by `/`

var d = new Date().toLocaleDateString().split(/); 

// `y` : year

var y = d.splice(-1)[0];

// set `y` as item at index `0` of `d`

d.splice(0, 0, y);

// join items within `d` with dash character `-`

var date = d.join(-);

console.log(date);