How to Get Two Digits Month and Date Value in Javascript

By default, Javascript getMonth() and getDate() methods don’t return two digits format (i.e, 0 preceding with single-digit value) for month and date. We can overcome that limitation by creating a function with just one line.

Two Digits Date Format in JS

function getTwoDigitDateFormat(monthOrDate) {
  return (monthOrDate < 10) ? '0' + monthOrDate : '' + monthOrDate;
}

var date = new Date();

var twoDigitDate = getTwoDigitDateFormat(date.getDate());
console.log("Two Digit Date: " + twoDigitDate); // example output: Two Digit Date: 02

var twoDigitMonth = getTwoDigitDateFormat(date.getMonth() + 1);
console.log("Two Digit Month: " + twoDigitMonth); // example output: Two Digit Month: 09

By creating this simple Javascript function, you can precede the single-digit month and date with ‘0’.  The getTwoDigitDateFormat function has one parameter called monthOrDate which may either be a month or a date.

Inside the getTwoDigitDateFormat function, I am checking whether the value of month/date is lesser than 0 or not. If it’s lesser than 0, then the function will return the month/date with ‘0’ preceding its value.

Otherwise, it will simply return the month/date value. I invoked the getTwoDigitDateFormat functions two times with different argument, date.getDate() to get the current date and date.getMonth() to get the current month.

Increase the getMonth() Value

var twoDigitMonth = getTwoDigitDateFormat(date.getMonth() + 1);

You might wonder what I had done by adding 1 when passing the getMonth() parameter in the function. By default, Javascript getMonth() method starts with 0 as arrays do in most of the popular programming languages. In other words, The numeric equivalent of January is 0 not 1 (which is February) in Javascript. By increasing the value by 1 we can get rid of this problem.

Hope it helps, if you have any other methods to solve this problem let me know by making a comment below. Thank you