How could I do DateTime.Now.Date (from C#) in JavaScript?

In C# I can use

DateTime dt = DateTime.Now.Date;

This will give the current date, without the TimeSpan value ('00:00:00'). In JavaScript I did this:

var dt = new Date(new Date().getFullYear(), new Date().getMonth(), new Date().getDate());

But is so "ugly" that there must be a better, easier and clean way to do it.

It is not ideal, but you can do it this way...

var today = new Date();
var dateWithoutTime = new Date(today.getFullYear() , today.getMonth(), today.getDate());

There are multiple ways to make Dates in javascript. The format above will create a new Date based on "today"'s year, month, and date (think day of the month).

Technically you could also do this with a DateString, however "new Date(dateString)" is implementation dependent, and may have inconsistent behavior across different browsers.

And if making 2 Date objects makes you uncomfortable, you could always do the following:

var today = new Date();
today.setHours(0); // or today.toUTCString(0) due to timezone differences
today.setMinutes(0);
today.setSeconds(0);

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