# Date.toString()
The toString() method returns a string representing the specified Date object.
```javascript
var event = new Date('August 19, 1975 23:15:30');
console.log(event.toString());
// expected output: Tue Aug 19 1975 23:15:30 GMT+0200 (CEST)
// (note: your timezone may vary)
```
## Syntax
```javascript
dateObj.toString()
```
**Return value**
A string representing the given date.
## Description
The [`Date`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date) object overrides the `toString()` method of the [`Object`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object) object; it does not inherit [`Object.prototype.toString()`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object/toString). For [`Date`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date) objects, the `toString()` method returns a string representation of the object.
The `toString()` method always returns a string representation of the date in American English.
JavaScript calls the `toString()` method automatically when a date is to be represented as a text value or when a date is referred to in a string concatenation.
`toString()` is a generic method. If `this` is not a [`Date`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date) instance, it returns "Invalid Date".
## Examples
#### Using `toString()`
The following assigns the `toString()` value of a [`Date`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date) object to `myVar`:
```javascript
var x = new Date();
myVar = x.toString(); // assigns a value to myVar similar to:
// Mon Sep 28 1998 14:36:22 GMT-0700 (PDT)
```
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## Contributors to this page
Uros Durdevic