Question

NO JQUERY! I have a drop down in which the user selects a day month and year. I create the following code and pass these values into the variable using setFullYear. At times I also add days to this variable which is waht the variable ev_num is for. When I write this to the page it displays a lot of unnecessary info…

Sat Jan 01 2011 11:44:26 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

I want it to simply read ‘Jan 01 2011’ or something like that. Does anyone know how I would fix this. Here is a jsfiddle of the entire page… http://jsfiddle.net/fET6v/

var myDate=new Date();
var ev_num = parseInt(document.getElementById("leave").value)
myDate.setFullYear(sel_year.value,sel_month.value,sel_day.value);
var event_value = document.getElementById("leave").value;

Answer 1

var d = new Date();
var day = d.getDate();
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];
document.write(currentMonth + " " + day + " " + year);

This will print today’s date with abbreviated months. It’s fully customizable.

http://jsfiddle.net/iansan5653/u7hkE/

EDIT: See this demo for the leading zero in front of the day number: http://jsfiddle.net/iansan5653/u7hkE/1/