Formatting dates JavaScript provides several built-in functions to format a date. However, these functions only convert the date to a format specific to each one.

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 ...