Date to Display in textbox

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Hi,

I have the following code to display date

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<form>
<input type="text" name="date">
</form>
<!-- note the position -->
<script type="text/javascript">
var currentTime = new Date();
var month = currentTime.getMonth() + 1;
var day = currentTime.getDate();
var year = currentTime.getFullYear();
document.forms[0].date.value = month + "/" + day + "/" + year;
</script>
</body>
</html>

but i need to show full month. The output of this is 7/20/2011 but i need it as 07/20/2011.

Any help would be appreciated.

Posted 20-Jul-11 9:28am

Member 8046452

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JOAT-MON · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-20T10:26:00

Solution 1

You could try something like this:

1. set the month variable to have leading zero

JavaScript

var month = "00" + (currentTime.getMonth() + 1);

2. then use the slice() function with a negative start index to get the last two characters

JavaScript

document.forms[0].date.value = month.slice(-2) + "/" + day + "/" + year;

Posted 20-Jul-11 10:26am

JOAT-MON

Updated 20-Jul-11 10:29am

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Member 8046452 20-Jul-11 17:16pm

It is not working

Member 8046452 20-Jul-11 17:21pm

I put one zero and works what if my month is 10i.e october?

Member 8046452 20-Jul-11 17:36pm

It is working I change the things.

Thanks dude.

JOAT-MON 20-Jul-11 18:01pm

Good deal! Glad you got it working.