JavaScript Date toLocaleDateString()

Get a date as a string, using locale conventions:

const d = new Date();
let text = d.toLocaleDateString();

Description

The toLocaleDateString() method returns the date (not the time) of a date object as a string, using locale conventions.

toLocaleDateString() is an ECMAScript1 (ES1) feature.

ES1 (JavaScript 1997) is fully supported in all browsers:


Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Safari	Opera	IE
Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Date.toLocaleDateString()

Return Value:	A String, representing the date as a string
JavaScript Version:	ECMAScript 1