Get month name and weekday from a JavaScript date
In this quick post, you will learn how to extract month name, week day from a JavaScript date. JavaScript Date object’s toLocaleString() provides various properties with which you can extract information related to a date in any format.
Syntax
date.toLocaleString(locale, {propertiesJson})Let’s define a date from which we are going to extract month name and weekday from a JavaScript date.
let today = new Date();
Month
let month = today.toLocaleString('default', { month: 'long'});
console.log(month);
//AprilWeekday
let weekday = today.toLocaleString('default', { weekday:'long'});
console.log(weekday);
//SaturdayDay
let day = today.toLocaleString('default', {day:'numeric'});
console.log(day);
//11
Year
let year = today.toLocaleString('default', {year:'numeric'});
console.log(year);
//2020Combining all these, you can get the current date in a beautiful format.
let sentDate = today.toLocaleString('default', { weekday:'long', month: 'long', day:'numeric',year: 'numeric' });
console.log("sentDate --" + sentDate);
//sentDate --Saturday, 11 April 2020
