How to get year/month/day from a date object?

var dateObj = new Date();
var month = dateObj.getUTCMonth() + 1; //months from 1-12
var day = dateObj.getUTCDate();
var year = dateObj.getUTCFullYear();

newdate = year + "/" + month + "/" + day;

or you can set new date and give the above values

var dt = new Date();

dt.getFullYear() + "/" + (dt.getMonth() + 1) + "/" + dt.getDate();

Since month index are 0 based you have to increment it by 1.

Edit

For a complete list of date object functions see

Date

getMonth()

Returns the month (0-11) in the specified date according to local time.

getUTCMonth()

Returns the month (0-11) in the specified date according to universal time.

info

If a 2 digit month and date is desired (2016/01/01 vs 2016/1/1)

code

var dateObj = new Date();
var month = ('0' + (dateObj.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2);
var date = ('0' + dateObj.getDate()).slice(-2);
var year = dateObj.getFullYear();
var shortDate = year + '/' + month + '/' + date;
alert(shortDate);

output

2016/10/06

fiddle

https://jsfiddle.net/Hastig/1xuu7z7h/

credit

More info from and credit to this answer

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To learn more about .slice the try it yourself editor at w3schools helped me understand better how to use it.

Nice formatting add-in: http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/date-time-format.

With that you could write:

var now = new Date();
now.format("yyyy/mm/dd");

Use the Date get methods.

http://www.tizag.com/javascriptT/javascriptdate.php

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/javascript/article.php/3470841

var dateobj= new Date() ;
var month = dateobj.getMonth() + 1;
var day = dateobj.getDate() ;
var year = dateobj.getFullYear();

EUROPE (ENGLISH/SPANISH) FORMAT
I you need to get the current day too, you can use this one.

function getFormattedDate(today) 
{
    var week = new Array('Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday');
    var day  = week[today.getDay()];
    var dd   = today.getDate();
    var mm   = today.getMonth()+1; //January is 0!
    var yyyy = today.getFullYear();
    var hour = today.getHours();
    var minu = today.getMinutes();

    if(dd<10)  { dd='0'+dd } 
    if(mm<10)  { mm='0'+mm } 
    if(minu<10){ minu='0'+minu } 

    return day+' - '+dd+'/'+mm+'/'+yyyy+' '+hour+':'+minu;
}

var date = new Date();
var text = getFormattedDate(date);

*For Spanish format, just translate the WEEK variable.

var week = new Array('Domingo', 'Lunes', 'Martes', 'Miércoles', 'Jueves', 'Viernes', 'Sábado');

Output: Monday - 16/11/2015 14:24

With the accepted answer, January 1st would be displayed like this: 2017/1/1.

If you prefer 2017/01/01, you can use:

var dt = new Date();
var date = dt.getFullYear() + '/' + (((dt.getMonth() + 1) < 10) ? '0' : '') + (dt.getMonth() + 1) + '/' + ((dt.getDate() < 10) ? '0' : '') + dt.getDate();

var date = new Date().toLocaleDateString()
"5/19/2019"

Here is a cleaner way getting Year/Month/Day with template literals:

var date = new Date();
var formattedDate = `${date.getFullYear()}/${(date.getMonth() + 1)}/${date.getDate()}`;
console.log(formattedDate);

I am using this which works if you pass it a date obj or js timestamp:

getHumanReadableDate: function(date) {
    if (date instanceof Date) {
         return date.getDate() + "/" + (date.getMonth() + 1) + "/" + date.getFullYear();
    } else if (isFinite(date)) {//timestamp
        var d = new Date();
        d.setTime(date);
        return this.getHumanReadableDate(d);
    }
}

ES2018 introduced regex capture groups which you can use to catch day, month and year:

const REGEX = /(?<year>[0-9]{4})-(?<month>[0-9]{2})-(?<day>[0-9]{2});
const results = REGEX.exec('2018-07-12');
console.log(results.groups.year);
console.log(results.groups.month);
console.log(results.groups.day);

Advantage of this approach is possiblity to catch day, month, year for non-standard string date formats.

Ref. https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/es9-javascripts-state-of-art-in-2018-9a350643f29c/

new Date().toISOString()
"2016-02-18T23:59:48.039Z"
new Date().toISOString().split('T')[0];
"2016-02-18"
new Date().toISOString().replace('-', '/').split('T')[0].replace('-', '/');
"2016/02/18"

new Date().toLocaleString().split(',')[0]
"2/18/2016"

I would suggest you to use Moment.js http://momentjs.com/

Then you can do:

moment(new Date()).format("YYYY/MM/DD");

Note: you don't actualy need to add new Date() if you want the current TimeDate, I only added it as a reference that you can pass a date object to it. for the current TimeDate this also works:

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

You can simply use This one line code to get date in year-month-date format

var date = new Date().getFullYear() + "-" + new Date().getMonth() + 1 + "-" + new Date().getDate();

Why not simply?

dateObj.toISOString().slice(0, 10) // YYYY-MM-DD

Check here:

const date1 = new Date('December 17, 1995 03:24:00');
console.log(date1.toISOString().slice(0, 10))

let dateObj = new Date();

let myDate = (dateObj.getUTCFullYear()) + "/" + (dateObj.getMonth() + 1)+ "/" + (dateObj.getUTCDate());

For reference you can see the below details

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

let dateObj = new Date();

let myDate = (dateObj.getUTCFullYear()) + "/" + (dateObj.getMonth() + 1)+ "/" + (dateObj.getUTCDate());

console.log(myDate)

// Return the minutes (0-59) new Date().getMonth() // Return the month (0-11) new Date().getSeconds() // Return the seconds (0-59) new Date().getTime() // Return the time (milliseconds since January 1, 1970)