JavaScript Date as in YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss Format or MM/DD/YYYY hh:mm:ss

Javascript Date method is very crazy, we can achieve different date format with simple changes

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Final code snippet here

function padTwoDigits(num: number) {
  return num.toString().padStart(2, "0");
}

function dateInYyyyMmDdHhMmSs(date: Date, dateDiveder: string = "-") {
  // :::: Exmple Usage ::::
  // The function takes a Date object as a parameter and formats the date as YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.
  // 👇️ 2023-04-11 16:21:23 (yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss)
  //console.log(dateInYyyyMmDdHhMmSs(new Date()));

  //  👇️️ 2025-05-04 05:24:07 (yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss)
  // console.log(dateInYyyyMmDdHhMmSs(new Date('May 04, 2025 05:24:07')));
  // Date divider
  // 👇️ 01/04/2023 10:20:07 (MM/DD/YYYY hh:mm:ss)
  // console.log(dateInYyyyMmDdHhMmSs(new Date(), "/"));
  return (
    [
      date.getFullYear(),
      padTwoDigits(date.getMonth() + 1),
      padTwoDigits(date.getDate()),
    ].join(dateDiveder) +
    " " +
    [
      padTwoDigits(date.getHours()),
      padTwoDigits(date.getMinutes()),
      padTwoDigits(date.getSeconds()),
    ].join(":")
  );
}

Here is full story

First we have created padTwoDigits function to leading zero to the day, month, hours, minutes and seconds if the value is less than 10.means suppose date is 4th means we need it like 04 because the format we need like DD two digits same for month, hours, minutes and seconds

function padTwoDigits(num: number) {
  return num.toString().padStart(2, "0");
}

Next

we need year, month, and day these we will get from Javascript Date function using date = new Date(); date.getFullYear , date.getMonth date.getDate same for hour hours, minutes, seconds date.getHours date.getMinutes date.getSeconds

suppose today date is 19th may 2023 and 10 AM by using above methods we get 2023, 5, 19 and 10 hours

in above for month we need to prepend 0 for month may using our padTwoDigits

lets join all using .join() method thats here final code snippet

function padTwoDigits(num: number) {
  return num.toString().padStart(2, "0");
}

function dateInYyyyMmDdHhMmSs(date: Date, dateDiveder: string = "-") {
  
  return (
    [
      date.getFullYear(),
      padTwoDigits(date.getMonth() + 1),
      padTwoDigits(date.getDate()),
    ].join(dateDiveder) +
    " " +
    [
      padTwoDigits(date.getHours()),
      padTwoDigits(date.getMinutes()),
      padTwoDigits(date.getSeconds()),
    ].join(":")
  );
}

:::: Exmple Usage ::::

The function dateInYyyyMmDdHhMmSs takes a Date object as a parameter, divider ‘ — ’ or ‘ / ’ and formats the date as YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.

👇️ 2023–04–11 16:21:23 (yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss)

console.log(dateInYyyyMmDdHhMmSs(new Date()));

2025–05–04 05:24:07 (yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss)

Its All Javascript we can pass required date as well 👇️️

dateInYyyyMmDdHhMmSs(new Date(‘May 04, 2030 10:20:07’), '/')

05/04/2030 10:20:07

Date divider ‘ — ’ or ‘ / ’ we can pass param

👇️ 01/04/2023 10:20:07 (MM/DD/YYYY hh:mm:ss)

console.log(dateInYyyyMmDdHhMmSs(new Date(), “/”));

Thanks for reading, and happy coding!!!!