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Convert a timestamp to YYYY-MM-DD with JS [duplicate]

I am storing time in a MySQL database as a Unix timestamp and that gets sent to some JavaScript code. How would I get just the time out of it?
For example, in HH/MM/SS format.

let unix_timestamp = 1549312452
// Create a new JavaScript Date object based on the timestamp
// multiplied by 1000 so that the argument is in milliseconds, not seconds.
var date = new Date(unix_timestamp * 1000);
// Hours part from the timestamp
var hours = date.getHours();
// Minutes part from the timestamp
var minutes = "0" + date.getMinutes();
// Seconds part from the timestamp
var seconds = "0" + date.getSeconds();
// Will display time in 10:30:23 format
var formattedTime = hours + ':' + minutes.substr(-2) + ':' + seconds.substr(-2);
console.log(formattedTime);
For more information regarding the Date object, please refer to MDN or the ECMAScript 5 specification.

function timeConverter(UNIX_timestamp){
var a = new Date(UNIX_timestamp * 1000);
var months = ['Jan','Feb','Mar','Apr','May','Jun','Jul','Aug','Sep','Oct','Nov','Dec'];
var year = a.getFullYear();
var month = months[a.getMonth()];
var date = a.getDate();
var hour = a.getHours();
var min = a.getMinutes();
var sec = a.getSeconds();
var time = date + ' ' + month + ' ' + year + ' ' + hour + ':' + min + ':' + sec ;
return time;
}
console.log(timeConverter(0));

JavaScript works in milliseconds, so you'll first have to convert the UNIX timestamp from seconds to milliseconds.
var date = new Date(UNIX_Timestamp * 1000);
// Manipulate JavaScript Date object here...

Use:
var s = new Date(1504095567183).toLocaleDateString("en-US")
console.log(s)
// expected output "8/30/2017"
and for time:
var s = new Date(1504095567183).toLocaleTimeString("en-US")
console.log(s)
// expected output "3:19:27 PM"
see Date.prototype.toLocaleDateString()

Modern Solution (for 2020)
In the new world, we should be moving towards the standard Intl JavaScript object, that has a handy DateTimeFormat constructor with .format() method:
function format_time(s) {
const dtFormat = new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-GB', {
timeStyle: 'medium',
timeZone: 'UTC'
});
return dtFormat.format(new Date(s * 1e3));
}
console.log( format_time(12345) ); // "03:25:45"
Eternal Solution
But to be 100% compatible with all legacy JavaScript engines, here is the shortest one-liner solution to format seconds as hh:mm:ss:
function format_time(s) {
return new Date(s * 1e3).toISOString().slice(-13, -5);
}
console.log( format_time(12345) ); // "03:25:45"
Method Date.prototype.toISOString() returns time in
simplified extended ISO 8601 format, which is always 24 or 27 characters long (i.e. YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ or
±YYYYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.sssZ respectively). The timezone is always
zero UTC offset.
This solution does not require any third-party libraries and is supported in all browsers and JavaScript engines.

I'm partial to Jacob Wright's Date.format() library, which implements JavaScript date formatting in the style of PHP's date() function.
new Date(unix_timestamp * 1000).format('h:i:s')

I'd think about using a library like momentjs.com, that makes this really simple:
Based on a Unix timestamp:
var timestamp = moment.unix(1293683278);
console.log( timestamp.format("HH/mm/ss") );
Based on a MySQL date string:
var now = moment("2010-10-10 12:03:15");
console.log( now.format("HH/mm/ss") );

shortest one-liner solution to format seconds as hh:mm:ss: variant:
console.log(new Date(1549312452 * 1000).toISOString().slice(0, 19).replace('T', ' '));
// "2019-02-04 20:34:12"

In moment you must use unix timestamp:
const dateTimeString = moment.unix(1466760005).format("DD-MM-YYYY HH:mm:ss");

This works with PHP timestamps
var d = 1541415288860;
//var d =val.timestamp;
//NB: use + before variable name
var date = new Date(+d);
console.log(d);
console.log(date.toDateString());
console.log(date.getFullYear());
console.log(date.getMinutes());
console.log(date.getSeconds());
console.log(date.getHours());
console.log(date.toLocaleTimeString());
var d =val.timestamp;
var date=new Date(+d); //NB: use + before variable name
console.log(d);
console.log(date.toDateString());
console.log(date.getFullYear());
console.log(date.getMinutes());
console.log(date.getSeconds());
console.log(date.getHours());
console.log(date.toLocaleTimeString());
the methods above will generate this results
1541415288860
Mon Nov 05 2018
2018
54
48
13
1:54:48 PM
There's a bunch of methods that work perfectly with timestamps. Cant list them all

UNIX timestamp is number of seconds since 00:00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970 (according to Wikipedia).
Argument of Date object in Javascript is number of miliseconds since 00:00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970 (according to W3Schools Javascript documentation).
See code below for example:
function tm(unix_tm) {
var dt = new Date(unix_tm*1000);
document.writeln(dt.getHours() + '/' + dt.getMinutes() + '/' + dt.getSeconds() + ' -- ' + dt + '<br>');
}
tm(60);
tm(86400);
gives:
1/1/0 -- Thu Jan 01 1970 01:01:00 GMT+0100 (Central European Standard Time)
1/0/0 -- Fri Jan 02 1970 01:00:00 GMT+0100 (Central European Standard Time)

Using Moment.js, you can get time and date like this:
var dateTimeString = moment(1439198499).format("DD-MM-YYYY HH:mm:ss");
And you can get only time using this:
var timeString = moment(1439198499).format("HH:mm:ss");

The problem with the aforementioned solutions is, that if hour, minute or second, has only one digit (i.e. 0-9), the time would be wrong, e.g. it could be 2:3:9, but it should rather be 02:03:09.
According to this page it seems to be a better solution to use Date's "toLocaleTimeString" method.

Another way - from an ISO 8601 date.
var timestamp = 1293683278;
var date = new Date(timestamp * 1000);
var iso = date.toISOString().match(/(\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2})/)
alert(iso[1]);

Based on #shomrat's answer, here is a snippet that automatically writes datetime like this (a bit similar to StackOverflow's date for answers: answered Nov 6 '16 at 11:51):
today, 11:23
or
yersterday, 11:23
or (if different but same year than today)
6 Nov, 11:23
or (if another year than today)
6 Nov 2016, 11:23
function timeConverter(t) {
var a = new Date(t * 1000);
var today = new Date();
var yesterday = new Date(Date.now() - 86400000);
var months = ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'];
var year = a.getFullYear();
var month = months[a.getMonth()];
var date = a.getDate();
var hour = a.getHours();
var min = a.getMinutes();
if (a.setHours(0,0,0,0) == today.setHours(0,0,0,0))
return 'today, ' + hour + ':' + min;
else if (a.setHours(0,0,0,0) == yesterday.setHours(0,0,0,0))
return 'yesterday, ' + hour + ':' + min;
else if (year == today.getFullYear())
return date + ' ' + month + ', ' + hour + ':' + min;
else
return date + ' ' + month + ' ' + year + ', ' + hour + ':' + min;
}

function getTIMESTAMP() {
var date = new Date();
var year = date.getFullYear();
var month = ("0" + (date.getMonth() + 1)).substr(-2);
var day = ("0" + date.getDate()).substr(-2);
var hour = ("0" + date.getHours()).substr(-2);
var minutes = ("0" + date.getMinutes()).substr(-2);
var seconds = ("0" + date.getSeconds()).substr(-2);
return year + "-" + month + "-" + day + " " + hour + ":" + minutes + ":" + seconds;
}
//2016-01-14 02:40:01

The modern solution that doesn't need a 40 KB library:
Intl.DateTimeFormat is the non-culturally imperialistic way to format a date/time.
// Setup once
var options = {
//weekday: 'long',
//month: 'short',
//year: 'numeric',
//day: 'numeric',
hour: 'numeric',
minute: 'numeric',
second: 'numeric'
},
intlDate = new Intl.DateTimeFormat( undefined, options );
// Reusable formatter
var timeStamp = 1412743273;
console.log( intlDate.format( new Date( 1000 * timeStamp ) ) );

Pay attention to the zero problem with some of the answers. For example, the timestamp 1439329773 would be mistakenly converted to 12/08/2015 0:49.
I would suggest on using the following to overcome this issue:
var timestamp = 1439329773; // replace your timestamp
var date = new Date(timestamp * 1000);
var formattedDate = ('0' + date.getDate()).slice(-2) + '/' + ('0' + (date.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2) + '/' + date.getFullYear() + ' ' + ('0' + date.getHours()).slice(-2) + ':' + ('0' + date.getMinutes()).slice(-2);
console.log(formattedDate);
Now results in:
12/08/2015 00:49

There are multiple ways to convert unix timestamp to time (HH/MM/SS)
Using new Date() - this is in-built in javascript
moment package - this is a famous node module, but this is going to deprecate.
dayjs package - this is one of the latest and fast growing node module
Using new Date()
const dateTimeStr = new Date(1504052527183).toLocaleString()
const result = (dateTimeStr.split(", ")[1]).split(":").join("/")
console.log(result)
Using moment
const moment = require('moment')
const timestampObj = moment.unix(1504052527183);
const result = timestampObj.format("HH/mm/ss")
console.log(result);
Using day.js
const dayjs = require('dayjs')
const result = dayjs(1504052527183).format("HH/mm/ss")
console.log(result);
you can check the timestamp to time conversion with an online time conversion tool

// Format value as two digits 0 => 00, 1 => 01
function twoDigits(value) {
if(value < 10) {
return '0' + value;
}
return value;
}
var date = new Date(unix_timestamp*1000);
// display in format HH:MM:SS
var formattedTime = twoDigits(date.getHours())
+ ':' + twoDigits(date.getMinutes())
+ ':' + twoDigits(date.getSeconds());

function getDateTimeFromTimestamp(unixTimeStamp) {
let date = new Date(unixTimeStamp);
return ('0' + date.getDate()).slice(-2) + '/' + ('0' + (date.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2) + '/' + date.getFullYear() + ' ' + ('0' + date.getHours()).slice(-2) + ':' + ('0' + date.getMinutes()).slice(-2);
}
const myTime = getDateTimeFromTimestamp(1435986900000);
console.log(myTime); // output 01/05/2000 11:00

You can use the following function to convert your timestamp to HH:MM:SS format :
var convertTime = function(timestamp, separator) {
var pad = function(input) {return input < 10 ? "0" + input : input;};
var date = timestamp ? new Date(timestamp * 1000) : new Date();
return [
pad(date.getHours()),
pad(date.getMinutes()),
pad(date.getSeconds())
].join(typeof separator !== 'undefined' ? separator : ':' );
}
Without passing a separator, it uses : as the (default) separator :
time = convertTime(1061351153); // --> OUTPUT = 05:45:53
If you want to use / as a separator, just pass it as the second parameter:
time = convertTime(920535115, '/'); // --> OUTPUT = 09/11/55
Demo
var convertTime = function(timestamp, separator) {
var pad = function(input) {return input < 10 ? "0" + input : input;};
var date = timestamp ? new Date(timestamp * 1000) : new Date();
return [
pad(date.getHours()),
pad(date.getMinutes()),
pad(date.getSeconds())
].join(typeof separator !== 'undefined' ? separator : ':' );
}
document.body.innerHTML = '<pre>' + JSON.stringify({
920535115 : convertTime(920535115, '/'),
1061351153 : convertTime(1061351153, ':'),
1435651350 : convertTime(1435651350, '-'),
1487938926 : convertTime(1487938926),
1555135551 : convertTime(1555135551, '.')
}, null, '\t') + '</pre>';
See also this Fiddle.

function timeConverter(UNIX_timestamp){
var a = new Date(UNIX_timestamp*1000);
var hour = a.getUTCHours();
var min = a.getUTCMinutes();
var sec = a.getUTCSeconds();
var time = hour+':'+min+':'+sec ;
return time;
}

See Date/Epoch Converter.
You need to ParseInt, otherwise it wouldn't work:
if (!window.a)
window.a = new Date();
var mEpoch = parseInt(UNIX_timestamp);
if (mEpoch < 10000000000)
mEpoch *= 1000;
------
a.setTime(mEpoch);
var year = a.getFullYear();
...
return time;

Shortest
(new Date(ts*1000)+'').slice(16,24)
let ts = 1549312452;
let time = (new Date(ts*1000)+'').slice(16,24);
console.log(time);

Try this :
new Date(1638525320* 1e3).toISOString() //2021-12-03T09:55:20.000Z

function getDateTime(unixTimeStamp) {
var d = new Date(unixTimeStamp);
var h = (d.getHours().toString().length == 1) ? ('0' + d.getHours()) : d.getHours();
var m = (d.getMinutes().toString().length == 1) ? ('0' + d.getMinutes()) : d.getMinutes();
var s = (d.getSeconds().toString().length == 1) ? ('0' + d.getSeconds()) : d.getSeconds();
var time = h + '/' + m + '/' + s;
return time;
}
var myTime = getDateTime(1435986900000);
console.log(myTime); // output 01/15/00

moment.js
convert timestamps to date string in js
https://momentjs.com/
moment().format('YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss');
// "2020-01-10 11:55:43"
moment(1578478211000).format('YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss');
// "2020-01-08 06:10:11"

If you want to convert Unix time duration to real hours, minutes, and seconds, you could use the following code:
var hours = Math.floor(timestamp / 60 / 60);
var minutes = Math.floor((timestamp - hours * 60 * 60) / 60);
var seconds = Math.floor(timestamp - hours * 60 * 60 - minutes * 60 );
var duration = hours + ':' + minutes + ':' + seconds;

Code below also provides 3-digit millisecs, ideal for console log prefixes:
const timeStrGet = date => {
const milliSecsStr = date.getMilliseconds().toString().padStart(3, '0') ;
return `${date.toLocaleTimeString('it-US')}.${milliSecsStr}`;
};
setInterval(() => console.log(timeStrGet(new Date())), 299);

How to format existing date using JavaScript/jQuery

I am trying to format date time using JavaScript/jQuery but it's not happening. My code is below.
<div id="divID"></div>
<script>
var formatDate = function(date){
return date.getDate() + "/" + date.getMonth() + "/" +date.getYear() + " "+ date.getHours() + ":" + date.getMinutes() + ":" + date.getMintutes() + ":" + date.getSeconds();
}
var timestamp="2016-12-16 07:58:30 AM ";
var date= new Date(timestamp);
document.getElementById('divID').innerHTML = formatDate(date);
</script>
Here I have the existing time 2016-12-16 07:58:30 AM and I need change it to 16-12-2016 07:58:30 AM but here I could not get the proper output.

Your code has a few issues:
You have a syntax error, you're calling getMintutes()
You appear to be attempting to show the minutes twice, so you can remove one of those calls
getFullYear() fits your needs better than getYear()
You should use - not / to delimit the date values.
You can add AM or PM to the end of the string by checking if hours < 12
Your timestamp string isn't valid. It should not contain 'AM' or 'PM' - hence why the code doesn't work in Firefox.
With that in mind, try this:
var formatDate = function(date) {
return date.getDate() + "-" + date.getMonth() + "-" + date.getFullYear() + " " + ('0' + date.getHours()).slice(-2) + ":" + ('0' + date.getMinutes()).slice(-2) + ":" + ('0' + date.getSeconds()).slice(-2) + ' ' + (date.getHours() < 12 ? 'AM' : 'PM');
}
var timestamp = "2016-12-16 07:58:30";
var date = new Date(timestamp);
document.getElementById('divID').innerHTML = formatDate(date);
<div id="divID"></div>
You could use a library to make the date formatting logic simpler, but it's rather wasteful to load an entirely library when a single line of code works fine.

The timestamp you are using will return an invalid date so you should remove the AM. Using moment.js you can do it like this:
var timestamp = "2016-12-16 07:58:30";
var formattedDate = moment(timestamp).format('DD-MM-YYYY h:mm:ss A');
console.log(formattedDate);
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/moment.js/2.5.1/moment.min.js"></script>

you can use a library named moment.js http://momentjs.com/
var date = new Date();
moment(date).format('DD-MM-YYYY HH:mm:ss A')

jQuery dateFormat is a separate plugin. You need to load that explicitly using a <script> tag.

You can use JQuery UI Datepicker for getting the formatted date like the following.
let myDate = '2020-11-10';
$.datepicker.formatDate('dd-M-yy', new Date(myDate));
The above code will return 10-Nov-2020.

You can get the desired output using JQuery UI Datepicker Widget as shown below.
var timestamp="2016-12-16 07:58:30 AM ";
var desiredTimestamp = $.datepicker.formatDate('dd-mm-yy', new Date(timestamp.split(' ')[0])) + ' ' + timestamp.split(' ')[1] + ' ' + timestamp.split(' ')[2];

Combine date and time string into single date with javascript

I have a datepicker returning a date string, and a timepicker returning just a time string.
How should I combine those into a single javascript Date?
I thought I found a solution in Date.js. The examples shows an at( )-method, but I can't find it in the library...

You can configure your date picker to return format like YYYY-mm-dd (or any format that Date.parse supports) and you could build a string in timepicker like:
var dateStringFromDP = '2013-05-16';
$('#timepicker').timepicker().on('changeTime.timepicker', function(e) {
var timeString = e.time.hour + ':' + e.time.minute + ':00';
var dateObj = new Date(datestringFromDP + ' ' + timeString);
});
javascript Date object takes a string as the constructor param

Combine date and time to string like this:
1997-07-16T19:20:15
Then you can parse it like this:
Date.parse('1997-07-16T19:20:15');
You could also use moment.js or something similar.

For plain JavaScript:
combineDateAndTime = function(date, time) {
timeString = time.getHours() + ':' + time.getMinutes() + ':00';
var year = date.getFullYear();
var month = date.getMonth() + 1; // Jan is 0, dec is 11
var day = date.getDate();
var dateString = '' + year + '-' + month + '-' + day;
var combined = new Date(dateString + ' ' + timeString);
return combined;
};

You can concatenate the date and time, and then use moment to get the datetime
const date = '2018-12-24';
const time = '23:59:59';
const dateTime = moment(`${date} ${time}`, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss').format();

Boateng's example fails in cases where time consisted of hours, minutes, days or months that ranged from values 0-9 as getDate(), getMonth() etc... will return 1 digit in these cases and the time string will fail and an invalid date is returned:
function CombineDateAndTime(date, time) {
const mins = ("0"+ time.getMinutes()).slice(-2);
const hours = ("0"+ time.getHours()).slice(-2);
const timeString = hours + ":" + mins + ":00";
const year = date.getFullYear();
const month = ("0" + (date.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2);
const day = ("0" + date.getDate()).slice(-2);
const dateString = "" + year + "-" + month + "-" + day;
const datec = dateString + "T" + timeString;
return new Date(datec);
};
Unfortunately do not have enough rep to comment

David's example with slight modifications:
function CombineDateAndTime(date, time) {
var timeString = time.getHours() + ':' + time.getMinutes() + ':00';
var ampm = time.getHours() >= 12 ? 'PM' : 'AM';
var year = date.getFullYear();
var month = date.getMonth() + 1; // Jan is 0, dec is 11
var day = date.getDate();
var dateString = '' + year + '-' + month + '-' + day;
var datec = dateString + 'T' + timeString;
var combined = new Date(datec);
return combined;
};

Concate date and time with moment JS which also works on firefox,
let d1 = moment().format('MM/DD/YYYY');
let dateTimeOpen = moment(d1 + ' ' + model.openingTime).format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss');
let dateTimeClose = moment(d1 + ' ' + model.closingTime).format('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss');

const date = "2022-12-27";
const time = "16:26:42";
new Date(`${date}T${time});
output
Date Tue Dec 27 2022 16:26:42 GMT+0100 (Central European Standard Time)

Format date in jQuery

var date = "Fri Jan 29 2012 06:12:00 GMT+0100";
How can i show this in format 2012-01-29 06:12 ?
In PHP is function ->format. In Javascript is also format, but if i try use this then i have error:
now.format is not a function
var now = new Date();
console.log(now.format("isoDateTime"));
http://jsfiddle.net/6v9hD/
I would like receive format: 2012-01-29 06:12

This question is a duplicate (see: How to get current date in jquery?).
By modifying my solution from the other question, I got:
var d = new Date();
var month = d.getMonth()+1;
var day = d.getDate();
var hour = d.getHours();
var minute = d.getMinutes();
var second = d.getSeconds();
var output = d.getFullYear() + '-' +
((''+month).length<2 ? '0' : '') + month + '-' +
((''+day).length<2 ? '0' : '') + day + ' ' +
((''+hour).length<2 ? '0' :'') + hour + ':' +
((''+minute).length<2 ? '0' :'') + minute + ':' +
((''+second).length<2 ? '0' :'') + second;
See this jsfiddle for a proof: http://jsfiddle.net/nCE9u/3/
You can also enclose it within function (demo is here: http://jsfiddle.net/nCE9u/4/):
function getISODateTime(d){
// padding function
var s = function(a,b){return(1e15+a+"").slice(-b)};
// default date parameter
if (typeof d === 'undefined'){
d = new Date();
};
// return ISO datetime
return d.getFullYear() + '-' +
s(d.getMonth()+1,2) + '-' +
s(d.getDate(),2) + ' ' +
s(d.getHours(),2) + ':' +
s(d.getMinutes(),2) + ':' +
s(d.getSeconds(),2);
}
and use it like that:
getISODateTime(new Date());
or:
getISODateTime(some_other_date);
EDIT: I have added some improvement to the function, as proposed by Ates Goral (also decreased its readability in favour of code comments).

Datejs.toString('yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm') should do the trick

Unfortunately, in Javascript, Date does not have a format() method.
Check out http://fisforformat.sourceforge.net for some nice formatting methods.

Use a library like Datejs or perhaps this tweet-sized implementation:
https://gist.github.com/1005948
var str = formatDate(
new Date(),
"{FullYear}-{Month:2}-{Date:2} {Hours:2}:{Minutes:2}");

I think this could be help you:date.format.js
var now = new Date();
now.format("m/dd/yy");
// Returns, e.g., 6/09/07
// Can also be used as a standalone function
dateFormat(now, "dddd, mmmm dS, yyyy, h:MM:ss TT");
// Saturday, June 9th, 2007, 5:46:21 PM
// You can use one of several named masks
now.format("isoDateTime");

You can use something like this(include date.js ) :
Date.parse(yourDate).toISOString();
so the date will have ISO 8601 format.

How to get correct gmt time in Javascript

For using the Amazon mechanical turk API I want to get the current GMT time and show it in ISO format
2011-02-24T20:38:34Z
I am wondering if there is any way to correctly get the gmt time and also be able to reformat it with ISO format. I can use something like now.toGMTString(); but it makes a string out of the date and it is hard to reformat it with ISO.

var year = now.getUTCFullYear()
var month = now.getUTCMonth()
var day= now.getUTCDay()
var hour= now.getUTCHours()
var mins= now.getUTCMinutes()
var secs= now.getUTCSeconds()
var dateString = year + "-" + month + "-" + day + "T" + hour + ":" + mins + ":" + secs + "Z"
You should be using UTC now instead of GMT. (Amounts to almost the same thing now, and it is the new standard anyway)

I believe this will work for you:
Number.prototype.pad = function(width,chr){
chr = chr || '0';
var result = this;
for (var a = 0; a < width; a++)
result = chr + result;
return result.slice(-width);
}
Date.prototype.toISOString = function(){
return this.getUTCFullYear().pad(4) + '-'
+ this.getUTCMonth().pad(2) + '-'
+ this.getUTCDay().pad(2) + 'T'
+ this.getUTCHours().pad(2) + ':'
+ this.getUTCMinutes().pad(2) + ':'
+ this.getUTCSeconds().pad(2) + 'Z';
}
Usage:
var d = new Date;
alert('ISO Format: '+d.toISOString());
Not much more different than every else's answer, but make it built-in to the date object for convenience

function pad(num) {
return ("0" + num).slice(-2);
}
function formatDate(d) {
return [d.getUTCFullYear(),
pad(d.getUTCMonth() + 1),
pad(d.getUTCDate())].join("-") + "T" +
[pad(d.getUTCHours()),
pad(d.getUTCMinutes()),
pad(d.getUTCSeconds())].join(":") + "Z";
}
formatDate(new Date());
Output:
"2011-02-24T21:01:55Z"

This script can take care of it
/* use a function for the exact format desired... */
function ISODateString(d){
function pad(n){return n<10 ? '0'+n : n}
return d.getUTCFullYear()+'-'
+ pad(d.getUTCMonth()+1)+'-'
+ pad(d.getUTCDate())+'T'
+ pad(d.getUTCHours())+':'
+ pad(d.getUTCMinutes())+':'
+ pad(d.getUTCSeconds())+'Z'}
var d = new Date();
document.write(ISODateString(d)); // prints something like 2009-09-28T19:03:12Z