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Quick Reference

The Date toLocaleString() method returns a date and time as a string, using locale settings.

<!-- html element to place output -->
<p id="my_output"></p>
// variable
let my_date = new Date();

// set date
let text = my_date.toLocaleString();

// output to the HTML element
document.getElementById('my_output').innerHTML = text;

Output

8/22/2022, 4:54:31 PM

Syntax

Date.toLocaleString(locales, options)

Parameters

ValueDescription
locales
  • ar-SA Arabic
  • bn-BD Bangla
  • bn-IN Bangla
  • cs-CZ Czech
  • da-DK Danish
  • de-AT Austrian German
  • de-CH "Swiss" German
  • de-DE Standard German
  • el-GR Modern Greek
  • en-AU Australian English
  • en-CA Canadian English
  • en-GB British English
  • en-IE Irish English
  • en-IN Indian English
  • en-NZ New Zealand English
  • en-US US English
  • en-ZA English (South Africa)
  • es-AR Argentine Spanish
  • es-CL Chilean Spanish
  • es-CO Colombian Spanish
  • es-ES Castilian Spanish (as spoken in Central-Northern Spain)
  • es-MX Mexican Spanish
  • es-US American Spanish
  • fi-FI Finnish
  • fr-BE Belgian French
  • fr-CA Canadian French
  • fr-CH "Swiss" French
  • fr-FR Standard French
  • he-IL Hebrew
  • hi-IN Hindi
  • hu-HU Hungarian
  • id-ID Indonesian
  • it-CH "Swiss" Italian
  • it-IT Standard Italian
  • ja-JP Japanese
  • ko-KR Korean (Republic of Korea)
  • nl-BE Belgian Dutch
  • nl-NL Standard Dutch
  • no-NO Norwegian
  • pl-PL Polish
  • pt-BR Brazilian Portuguese
  • pt-PT European Portuguese (Portugal)
  • ro-RO Romanian
  • ru-RU Russian
  • sk-SK Slovak
  • sv-SE Swedish
  • ta-IN Indian Tamil
  • ta-LK Sri Lankan Tamil
  • th-TH Thai
  • tr-TR Turkish
  • zh-CN Mainland China (simplified characters)
  • zh-HK Hong Kong (traditional characters)
  • zh-TW Taiwan (traditional characters)
optionsdateStyle:
  • "full"
  • "long"
  • "medium"
  • "short"
timeStyle:
  • "full"
  • "long"
  • "medium"
  • "short"
localeMatcher:
  • "best-fit" (default)
  • "lookup"
timeZone -

hour12:
  • false
  • true
hourCycle:
  • "h11"
  • "h12"
  • "h23"
  • "h24"
formatMatcher:
  • "basic"
  • "best-fit"
weekday:
  • "long"
  • "short"
  • "narrow"
year:
  • "2-digit"
  • "numeric"
month:
  • "2-digit"
  • "long"
  • "narrow"
  • "numeric"
  • "short"
day:
  • "2-digit"
  • "numeric"
hour:
  • "2-digit"
  • "numeric"
minute:
  • "2-digit"
  • "numeric"
second:
  • "2-digit"
  • "numeric"
timeZoneName:
  • "long"
  • "short"

JavaScript Notes:

  • When using JavaScript, single or double quotation marks are acceptable and work identically to one another; choose whichever you prefer, and stay consistent
  • JavaScript is a case-sensitive language; firstName is NOT the same as firstname
  • Arrays count starting from zero NOT one; so item 1 is position [0], item 2 is position [1], and item 3 is position [2] … and so on
  • JavaScript variables must begin with a letter, $, or _
  • JavaScript variables are case sensitive (x is not the same as X)
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