Current Date

[Dan Ebberts]

This source text expression should do it:

D = new Date(Date(0));
“” + D.getDate() + “/” + (D.getMonth()+1) + “/” + D.getFullYear()

Dan

[Anthony Dupsta]

Dan,
I just wanted to say thank you very much for “current date script.” I know it seems like a minor thing, but it is so nice not to have to deal with hand doing certain things over and over! Great script

[Damien Ivan]

Holy crap! Thanks so much! Date(0)! I would never have figured that out in a million years. I would have assumed that would return Jan 1st, 1970. Thanks again.

[Ceng Cung]

Thanks for how to get current date.
After some googling i have modified to get months as names.
It works, but did not display latin-extended characters.

I tried with ascii and did not work too.
Is there any way to display latin-extended characters…

month = new Array();
month[0] = "Ocak";
month[1] = "Şubat";
month[2] = "Mart";
month[3] = "Nisan";
month[4] = "Mayıs";
month[5] = "Haziran";
month[6] = "Temmuz";
month[7] = "Ağustos";
month[8] = "Eylül";
month[9] = "Ekim";
month[10] = "Kasım";
month[11] = "Aralık";

D = new Date(Date(0));
"" + D.getDate() + " " + month[(D.getMonth())] + " " + D.getFullYear()

[Daniel Buckland]

If you copy and paste Dan Ebberts text, it throws up a syntax error casue the quatation marks copy wrong.

Here’s a fixed version

d = new Date();

“Date: ” + d.getDate() + “/” + (d.getMonth()+1) + “/” + d.getFullYear();

Also here’s a version which pads the zeros.

d = new Date();

function padZeros(n){

if(n <= 9){

return “0” + n;

}

return n

}

“Date: ” + padZeros(d.getDate()) + “/” + padZeros(d.getMonth()+1) + “/” + d.getFullYear();