Question

I have 2 questions about dates.

The first one is how can I get the “AM/PM” from a date in Javascript?

the second question is say I have this code

    var convertedStartDate = new Date(dueDate);
    var month = convertedStartDate.getMonth() + 1;
    var day = convertedStartDate.getDate();
    var year = convertedStartDate.getFullYear();
     var shortDueDate = month + "/" + day + "/" + year;

Now as you can see I want always this format mm/dd/yyyy

So I am wondering if say dueDate is 1/9/2010 (mm/dd/yyyy) but the person entered it in as dd/mm/yyyy(some other format version of date).

would

month = 1
day = 9
year = 2010

Or do I have to tell it somehow to always convert into mm/dd/yyyy? Or does it do is own format so that it always would get the right order? Ie it does not matter what order they put the date in it would always get 9 as the day.

Answer 1

Here, give this a try:

now = new Date();

hour = now.getHours();
var tag = "";

if (hour >= 12) {
  tag = "pm";
} else {
  tag = "am";
}

As for the second part of your question, I’d just make those parts of the form separate fields, there really is no way otherwise. You’re just going to have to write some hints into your form.