Question

I was wondering if anyone could help me get the leading zero to show up when I do a getDate? Right now it’s showing up as 8/3/2010 … I would like it 08/03/2010.

Answer 1

You need to detect if the value of the day and month is less than 10 and add the zero yourself:

var today = new Date();
var day = today.getDate();
var month = today.getMonth() + 1;
var year = today.getFullYear();

var formatted =
    (day < 10 ? "0" : "") + day + "/"  +
    (month < 10 ? "0" : "") + month + "/"  +
    year;

alert(formatted);

You can see it in action here. Note that you add one to the month as January = 0 rather than 1.