How to get current date in jquery?

Date() is not part of jQuery, it is one of JavaScript's features.

See the documentation on Date object.

You can do it like that:

var d = new Date();

var month = d.getMonth()+1;
var day = d.getDate();

var output = d.getFullYear() + '/' +
    (month<10 ? '0' : '') + month + '/' +
    (day<10 ? '0' : '') + day;

See this jsfiddle for a proof.

The code may look like a complex one, because it must deal with months & days being represented by numbers less than 10 (meaning the strings will have one char instead of two). See this jsfiddle for comparison.

If you have jQuery UI (needed for the datepicker), this would do the trick:

$.datepicker.formatDate('yy/mm/dd', new Date());

jQuery is JavaScript. Use the Javascript Date Object.

var d = new Date();
var strDate = d.getFullYear() + "/" + (d.getMonth()+1) + "/" + d.getDate();

Using pure Javascript your can prototype your own YYYYMMDD format;

Date.prototype.yyyymmdd = function() {
  var yyyy = this.getFullYear().toString();
  var mm = (this.getMonth()+1).toString(); // getMonth() is zero-based
  var dd  = this.getDate().toString();
  return yyyy + "/" + (mm[1]?mm:"0"+mm[0]) + "/" + (dd[1]?dd:"0"+dd[0]); // padding
};

var date = new Date();
console.log( date.yyyymmdd() ); // Assuming you have an open console

Since the question is tagged as JQuery:

If you are also using JQuery UI you can use $.datepicker.formatDate():

$.datepicker.formatDate('yy/mm/dd', new Date());

See this demo.

Here is method top get current Day, Year or Month

new Date().getDate()          // Get the day as a number (1-31)
new Date().getDay()           // Get the weekday as a number (0-6)
new Date().getFullYear()      // Get the four digit year (yyyy)
new Date().getHours()         // Get the hour (0-23)
new Date().getMilliseconds()  // Get the milliseconds (0-999)
new Date().getMinutes()       // Get the minutes (0-59)
new Date().getMonth()         // Get the month (0-11)
new Date().getSeconds()       // Get the seconds (0-59)
new Date().getTime()          // Get the time (milliseconds since January 1, 1970)

//convert month to 2 digits<p>
var twoDigitMonth = ((fullDate.getMonth().length+1) === 1)? (fullDate.getMonth()+1) : '0' + (fullDate.getMonth()+1);

var currentDate =  fullDate.getFullYear()+ "/" + twoDigitMonth + "/" + fullDate.getDate();
console.log(currentDate);<br>
//2011/05/19

this object set zero, when element has only one symbol:

function addZero(i) {
    if (i < 10) {
        i = "0" + i;
    }
    return i;
}

This object set actual full time, hour and date:

function getActualFullDate() {
    var d = new Date();
    var day = addZero(d.getDate());
    var month = addZero(d.getMonth()+1);
    var year = addZero(d.getFullYear());
    var h = addZero(d.getHours());
    var m = addZero(d.getMinutes());
    var s = addZero(d.getSeconds());
    return day + ". " + month + ". " + year + " (" + h + ":" + m + ")";
}

function getActualHour() {
    var d = new Date();
    var h = addZero(d.getHours());
    var m = addZero(d.getMinutes());
    var s = addZero(d.getSeconds());
    return h + ":" + m + ":" + s;
}

function getActualDate() {
    var d = new Date();
    var day = addZero(d.getDate());
    var month = addZero(d.getMonth()+1);
    var year = addZero(d.getFullYear());
    return day + ". " + month + ". " + year;
}

HTML:

<span id='full'>a</span>
<br>
<span id='hour'>b</span>
<br>    
<span id='date'>c</span>

JQUERY VIEW:

$(document).ready(function(){
    $("#full").html(getActualFullDate());
    $("#hour").html(getActualHour());
    $("#date").html(getActualDate());
});

EXAMPLE

Try this....

var d = new Date();
alert(d.getFullYear()+'/'+(d.getMonth()+1)+'/'+d.getDate());

getMonth() return month 0 to 11 so we would like to add 1 for accurate month

Reference by : http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_date.asp

FYI - getDay() will give you the day of the week... ie: if today is Thursday, it will return the number 4 (being the 4th day of the week).

To get a proper day of the month, use getDate().

My example below... (also a string padding function to give a leading 0 on single time elements. (eg: 10:4:34 => 10:04:35)

function strpad00(s)
{
    s = s + '';
    if (s.length === 1) s = '0'+s;
    return s;
}

var currentdate = new Date();
var datetime = currentdate.getDate() 
    + "/" + strpad00((currentdate.getMonth()+1)) 
    + "/" + currentdate.getFullYear() 
    + " @ " 
    + currentdate.getHours() + ":" 
    + strpad00(currentdate.getMinutes()) + ":" 
    + strpad00(currentdate.getSeconds());

Example output: 31/12/2013 @ 10:07:49
If using getDay(), the output would be 4/12/2013 @ 10:07:49

I know I am Late But This Is All You Need

var date = (new Date()).toISOString().split('T')[0];

toISOString() use built function of javascript.

cd = (new Date()).toISOString().split('T')[0];
console.log(cd);
alert(cd);

console.log($.datepicker.formatDate('yy/mm/dd', new Date()));

you can use this code:

var nowDate     = new Date();
var nowDay      = ((nowDate.getDate().toString().length) == 1) ? '0'+(nowDate.getDate()) : (nowDate.getDate());
var nowMonth    = ((nowDate.getMonth().toString().length) == 1) ? '0'+(nowDate.getMonth()+1) : (nowDate.getMonth()+1);
var nowYear     = nowDate.getFullYear();
var formatDate  = nowDay + "." + nowMonth + "." + nowYear;

you can find a working demo here

I just wanted to share a timestamp prototype I made using Pierre's idea. Not enough points to comment :(

// US common date timestamp
Date.prototype.timestamp = function() {
  var yyyy = this.getFullYear().toString();
  var mm = (this.getMonth()+1).toString(); // getMonth() is zero-based
  var dd  = this.getDate().toString();
  var h = this.getHours().toString();
  var m = this.getMinutes().toString();
  var s = this.getSeconds().toString();

  return (mm[1]?mm:"0"+mm[0]) + "/" + (dd[1]?dd:"0"+dd[0]) + "/" + yyyy + " - " + ((h > 12) ? h-12 : h) + ":" + m + ":" + s;
};

d = new Date();

var timestamp = d.timestamp();
// 10/12/2013 - 2:04:19

Using the jQuery-ui datepicker, it has a handy date conversion routine built in so you can format dates:

var my_date_string = $.datepicker.formatDate( "yy-mm-dd",  new Date() );

Simple.

Get current Date format dd/mm/yyyy

Here is the code:

var fullDate = new Date();
var twoDigitMonth = ((fullDate.getMonth().toString().length) == 1)? '0'+(fullDate.getMonth()+1) : (fullDate.getMonth()+1);
var twoDigitDate = ((fullDate.getDate().toString().length) == 1)? '0'+(fullDate.getDate()) : (fullDate.getDate());
var currentDate = twoDigitDate + "/" + twoDigitMonth + "/" + fullDate.getFullYear();
alert(currentDate);

You can add an extension method to javascript.

Date.prototype.today = function () {
    return ((this.getDate() < 10) ? "0" : "") + this.getDate() + "/" + (((this.getMonth() + 1) < 10) ? "0" : "") + (this.getMonth() + 1) + "/" + this.getFullYear();
}

In JavaScript you can get the current date and time using the Date object;

var now = new Date();

This will get the local client machine time

Example for jquery LINK

If you are using jQuery DatePicker you can apply it on any textfield like this:

$( "#datepicker" ).datepicker({dateFormat:"yy/mm/dd"}).datepicker("setDate",new Date());

function GetTodayDate() {
   var tdate = new Date();
   var dd = tdate.getDate(); //yields day
   var MM = tdate.getMonth(); //yields month
   var yyyy = tdate.getFullYear(); //yields year
   var currentDate= dd + "-" +( MM+1) + "-" + yyyy;

   return currentDate;
}

Very handy function to use it , Enjoy

See this.
The $.now() method is a shorthand for the number returned by the expression (new Date).getTime().

Moment.js makes it quite easy:

moment().format("YYYY/MM/DD")

You can achieve this with moment.js as well. Include moment.js in your html.

<script src="moment.js"></script>

And use below code in script file to get formatted date.

moment(new Date(),"YYYY-MM-DD").utcOffset(0, true).format();

The jQuery plugin page is down. So manually:

function strpad00(s)
{
    s = s + '';
    if (s.length === 1) s = '0'+s;
    return s;
}

var now = new Date();
var currentDate = now.getFullYear()+ "/" + strpad00(now.getMonth()+1) + "/" + strpad00(now.getDate());
console.log(currentDate );

var d = new Date();

var today = d.getFullYear() + '/' + ('0'+(d.getMonth()+1)).slice(-2) + '/' + ('0'+d.getDate()).slice(-2);

You can do this:

    var now = new Date();
    dateFormat(now, "dddd, mmmm dS, yyyy, h:MM:ss TT");
     // Saturday, June 9th, 2007, 5:46:21 PM

OR Something like

    var dateObj = new Date();
    var month = dateObj.getUTCMonth();
    var day = dateObj.getUTCDate();
    var year = dateObj.getUTCFullYear();
    var newdate = month + "/" + day + "/" + year;
    alert(newdate);

This is what I came up with using only jQuery. It's just a matter of putting the pieces together.

        //Gather date information from local system
        var ThisMonth = new Date().getMonth() + 1;
        var ThisDay = new Date().getDate();
        var ThisYear = new Date().getFullYear();
        var ThisDate = ThisMonth.toString() + "/" + ThisDay.toString() + "/" + ThisYear.toString();

        //Gather time information from local system
        var ThisHour = new Date().getHours();
        var ThisMinute = new Date().getMinutes();
        var ThisTime = ThisHour.toString() + ":" + ThisMinute.toString();

        //Concatenate date and time for date-time stamp
        var ThisDateTime = ThisDate  + " " + ThisTime;

This will give you current date string

var today = new Date().toISOString().split('T')[0];

var d = new Date();
var month = d.getMonth() + 1;
var day = d.getDate();
var year = d.getYear();
var today = (day<10?'0':'')+ day + '/' +(month<10?'0':'')+ month + '/' + year;
alert(today);

function createDate() {
            var date    = new Date(),
                yr      = date.getFullYear(),
                month   = date.getMonth()+1,
                day     = date.getDate(),
                todayDate = yr + '-' + month + '-' + day;
            console.log("Today date is :" + todayDate);

function returnCurrentDate() {
                var twoDigitMonth = ((fullDate.getMonth().toString().length) == 1) ? '0' + (fullDate.getMonth() + 1) : (fullDate.getMonth() + 1);
                var twoDigitDate = ((fullDate.getDate().toString().length) == 1) ? '0' + (fullDate.getDate()) : (fullDate.getDate());
                var currentDate = twoDigitDate + "/" + twoDigitMonth + "/" + fullDate.getFullYear();
                return currentDate;
            }