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Get Current Date

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Summary

JavaScript provides the Date object to take the current date and time. The month's value starts from 0 for January, so it often needs to be added one or mapped to the month's name. For a neat look, you can arrange the string yourself or use Intl.DateTimeFormat to format it to suit the locale.

Key points

New Date() without argument generates the date and time now
GetFullYear(), getMonth(), and getDate() take years, months, and dates
Returns 0-11, so January is 0.
Returns the index of days in a week, Sunday is 0.
Intl.DateTimeFormat helps to format dates according to locale

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