Date.toString()
Converts a Date object to a string
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 Date
object overrides the toString()
method of the Object
object; it does not inherit Object.prototype.toString()
. For 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
instance, it returns "Invalid Date".
Examples
Using toString()
toString()
The following assigns the toString()
value of a Date
object to myVar
:
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
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