Question

I am trying to display the text ‘Oct 09, 2012’. Instead it is not running the function and is displaying a lot of unnessecary date text. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?

You can play with my jsfiddle… http://jsfiddle.net/UP3fd/

Here is the code…

var myDate = new Date();

convertDate(myDate);

myDate.setFullYear(2012, 9, 9);

document.write(myDate);

function convertDate(d) {
    var day = d.getDate();
    if (day < 10) {
        day = "0" + day;
    }
    var year = d.getFullYear();
    var month = d.getMonth();
    var months=["Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","June","July","Aug","Sep","Oct"," Nov","Dec"];
    var currentMonth = months[month];
    return (currentMonth + " " + day + ", " + year);
}

Answer 1

You are calling your function before you set your date, and you are not saving/outputting the return value anywhere.

var myDate = new Date();

myDate.setFullYear(2012, 9, 9);

document.write( convertDate(myDate) );

function convertDate(d) {
    var day = d.getDate();
    if (day < 10) {
        day = "0" + day;
    }
    var year = d.getFullYear();
    var month = d.getMonth();
    var months=["Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","June","July","Aug","Sep","Oct"," Nov","Dec"];
    var currentMonth = months[month];
    return (currentMonth + " " + day + ", " + year);
}
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