# 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 <a href="#syntax" id="syntax"></a>

```javascript
dateObj.toString()
```

**Return value**

A string representing the given date.

## Description <a href="#description" id="description"></a>

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 <a href="#examples" id="examples"></a>

#### Using `toString()` <a href="#using_tostring" id="using_tostring"></a>

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)
```

## References <a href="#references" id="references"></a>

{% embed url="<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/toString>" %}

## Contributors to this page <a href="#contributors-to-this-page" id="contributors-to-this-page"></a>

Uros Durdevic


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