I have this yest_date variable in javascript
var yest_date = "Mon Dec 12 2016 15:33:41 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)"
I want this variable 'yest_date' to be in this format and the value is.
20161212
Can someone let me know how to achieve this.
I would suggest use moment.js. It is a very good library to handle any date time related problem http://momentjs.com/
var yest_date = moment("Mon Dec 12 2016 15:33:41 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)")
console.log(yest_date.format("YYYYMMDD"))
If you don't want to add an extra library then you can use the classic string concat
let yest_date = new Date("Mon Dec 12 2016 15:33:41 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)")
console.log(`${yest_date.getFullYear()}${yest_date.getMonth() + 1}${yest_date.getDate()}`)
${yest_date.getFullYear()}${yest_date.getMonth() + 1}${yest_date.getDate()}Simply convert your string into an actual Date, then use the Date getter methods to extract the values you want into a formatted string:
let yest_date = "Mon Dec 12 2016 15:33:41 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)"
let date = new Date(yest_date);
console.log(`${date.getFullYear()}${date.getMonth() + 1}${date.getDate()}`)
You can do the following:
const date = new Date('Mon Dec 12 2016 15:33:41 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)')
const day = date.getDate();
const month = date.getMonth() + 1;
const year = date.getFullYear();
const formattedDate = `${year}${month}${day}`;
console.log(formattedDate);