Possible Duplicate: How do I display a date/time in the user's locale format and

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Asked: May 22, 20262026-05-22T12:05:08+00:00 2026-05-22T12:05:08+00:00

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How do I display a date/time in the user's locale format and time offset?

Hi – simple question – I just want to take this:

document.getElementById("time").innerHTML= new Date();

and format it into something legible, like this:

May 18, 2011 7:45 AM

making sure it is localized to whomever might be seeing it. Currently, it prints out as this:

Wed May 18 2011 07:46:25 GMT-0400 (EDT)

How do I do this?

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-22T12:05:09+00:00

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Look up the reference for

  Date.toLocaleString()

  Date.toLocaleDateString(), and 

  Date.toLocaleTimeString().

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