JavaScript Date object The Date object in JavaScript is the main element when it comes to handling date and time.

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.