Date Format Issue

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Bibi

Newbie here with what's probably a very simple question for you folks but I would greatly appreciate any help.

I'm using a javascript to automatically add 5 days to today's date. It works just fine but it displays the date as "Friday, February 01, 2013" when I would like it displayed as just "February 01" (i.e. without the day of the week or the year).

Here's the script I'm using and thanks in advance for any suggestions!

function addDate(dateObject, numDays) {
dateObject.setDate(dateObject.getDate() + numDays);
return dateObject.toLocaleDateString();
}
var numDays;
var oldDate;
var newDate;
oldDate = new Date();
numDays = 5;

newDate = addDate(oldDate, numDays)
document.writeln("" + newDate + "");

ReFreezed

Use the [FONT=courier new]getDate[/FONT] and [FONT=courier new]getMonth[/FONT] methods to get the date and month respectively:

var monthNames = ["January", "February", "March",
    "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September",
    "October", "November", "December"];

var date = new Date();
var currentDate = date.getDate();
var currentMonth = date.getMonth();
alert( monthNames[currentMonth] + " " + currentDate );

So instead of returning dateObject.toLocaleDateString() from addDate you would return [FONT=Courier New]monthNames[dateObject.getMonth()] + " " + dateObject.getDate()[/FONT]

Bibi

Thanks for the response ReFreezed. It sort of worked in that it displayed the result as just the month and date but it did so in an alert box as opposed to on the web page (the document.write thing). Also, it just displayed today's date and not today's date plus 5 days which is what the script is all about.

polyglot

By the way ..........

A summary of the international standard date and time notation - International Standard ISO 8601

James

Bibi

Thank you polyglot, but this script is for use on a US site that only sells product to people in the US.