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Date.toString()

Converts a Date object to a string

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The toString() method returns a string representing the specified Date object.

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

dateObj.toString()

Return value

A string representing the given date.

Description

The object overrides the toString() method of the object; it does not inherit . For 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 instance, it returns "Invalid Date".

Examples

Using toString()

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

Contributors to this page

Uros Durdevic

The following assigns the toString() value of a object to myVar:

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