The Date object in JavaScript is the main element when it comes to handling date and time. It records a single point in time as the milliseconds’ number elapsed since the 1st January 1970 00:00: ...

The JavaScript Date object is notoriously hard to use, and JavaScript developers often use 3rd party libraries such as Moment.js in order to get a broader, more convenient solution for date ...

Is there any pure JS way to get the "short date" format of a JavaScript Date object (i.e. 04/05/2005), while respecting localized differences (i.e. 04/05/2005 in the U.S. is the same as 05/04/2005 ...

The JavaScript Date object was created by copying the implementation of Java's 'java.util.Date' when JavaScript was created in 1995, and the same API has been used for 30 years.