How do I get the current time only in JavaScript

How can I get the current time in JavaScript and use it in a timepicker?

I tried var x = Date() and got:

> Tue May 15 2012 05:45:40 GMT-0500

But I need only current time, for example, 05:45

How can I assign this to a variable?

var d = new Date("2011-04-20T09:30:51.01");
d.getHours(); // => 9
d.getMinutes(); // =>  30
d.getSeconds(); // => 51

or

var d = new Date(); // for now
d.getHours(); // => 9
d.getMinutes(); // =>  30
d.getSeconds(); // => 51

Short and simple:

new Date().toLocaleTimeString(); // 11:18:48 AM
//---
new Date().toLocaleDateString(); // 11/16/2015
//---
new Date().toLocaleString(); // 11/16/2015, 11:18:48 PM

4 hours later (use milisec: sec==1000):

new Date(new Date().getTime() + 4*60*60*1000).toLocaleTimeString(); // 3:18:48 PM or 15:18:48

2 days before:

new Date(new Date().getTime() - 2*24*60*60*1000).toLocaleDateString() // 11/14/2015

Get and set the current time efficiently using javascript

I couldn't find a solution that did exactly what I needed. I wanted clean and tiny code so I came up with this:

(Set once in your master.js and invoke when required.)

PURE JAVASCRIPT

function timeNow(i) {
  var d = new Date(),
    h = (d.getHours()<10?'0':'') + d.getHours(),
    m = (d.getMinutes()<10?'0':'') + d.getMinutes();
  i.value = h + ':' + m;
}

<a onclick="timeNow(test1)" href="#">SET TIME</a>
<input id="test1" type="time" value="10:40" />

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UPDATE

There is now sufficient browser support to simply use: toLocaleTimeString

For html5 type time the format must be hh:mm.

function timeNow(i) {
  i.value = new Date().toLocaleTimeString([], {hour: '2-digit', minute:'2-digit'});
}

<a onclick="timeNow(test1)" href="#">SET TIME</a>
<input id="test1" type="time" value="10:40" />

Try it on jsfiddle

Try

new Date().toLocaleTimeString().replace("/.*(\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}).*/", "$1");

Or

new Date().toTimeString().split(" ")[0];

You can simply use this methods.

console.log(new Date().toLocaleTimeString([], { hour: '2-digit', minute: "2-digit", hour12: false }));
console.log(new Date().toLocaleTimeString([], { hour: '2-digit', minute: "2-digit" }));

const date = Date().slice(16,21);
console.log(date);

Do you mean:

var d = new Date();
var curr_hour = d.getHours();
var curr_min = d.getMinutes();

Try this:

var date = new Date();
var hour = date.getHours();
var min = date.getMinutes();

function getCurrentTime(){
    var date = new Date();
    var hh = date.getHours();
	var mm = date.getMinutes();

	hh = hh < 10 ? '0'+hh : hh; 
    mm = mm < 10 ? '0'+mm : mm;

	curr_time = hh+':'+mm;
	return curr_time;
}

This how you can do it.

const date = new Date();
const time = date.toTimeString().split(' ')[0].split(':');
console.log(time[0] + ':' + time[1])

See these Date methods ...

• toLocaleTimeString - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/toLocaleTimeString

• toTimeString - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/toTimeString

this -

var x = new Date(); 
var h = x.getHours(); 
var m = x.getMinutes(); 
var s = x.getSeconds(); 

so-

 x = date
h = hours
m = mins
s = seconds

A simple way to do this in ES6, in the format you requested (hh:mm), would be this way:

const goodTime = `${new Date().getHours()}:${new Date().getMinutes()}`;

console.log(goodTime);

(Obviously, the console logging is not part of the solution)

This is the shortest way.

var now = new Date().toLocaleTimeString();
console.log(now)

Here is also a way through string manipulation that was not mentioned.

var now = new Date()
console.log(now.toString().substr(16,8))

var today = new Date();  //gets current date and time
var hour = today.getHours();         
var minute = today.getMinutes();
var second = today.getSeconds();

Simple functions to get Date and Time separated and with compatible format with Time and Date HTML input

function formatDate(date) {
  var d 		= new Date(date),
      month = '' + (d.getMonth() + 1),
      day 	= '' + d.getDate(),
      year 	= d.getFullYear();

  if (month.length < 2) month = '0' + month;
  if (day.length < 2) day = '0' + day;

  return [year, month, day].join('-');
}

function formatTime(date) {
		var hours   = new Date().getHours() > 9 ? new Date().getHours() : '0' + new Date().getHours()
		var minutes = new Date().getMinutes() > 9 ? new Date().getMinutes() : '0' + new Date().getMinutes()

		return hours + ':' + minutes
}

Try this

new Date().toTimeString().slice(0, 8);

or

new Date().toTimeString().split(" ")[0];

It should work.

Assign to variables and display it.

time = new Date();

var hh = time.getHours();
var mm = time.getMinutes();
var ss = time.getSeconds() 

document.getElementById("time").value = hh + ":" + mm + ":" + ss;

This worked for me but this depends on what you get when you hit Date():

Date().slice(16,-12)

Here is how I'm doing this: (Hope it helps someone) What I'm doing is validating the time that the user enters in the HTML time input is not in the past:

let inputTime = value; // from time input in html (06:29)

const splittedInputTime = inputTime.split(':');

let currentDate = new Date();
currentDate.setHours(splittedInputTime[0]);
currentDate.setMinutes(splittedInputTime[1]);

const finalInputTime = currentDate.toTimeString().split(" ")[0];

const currentTime = new Date().toTimeString().split(" ")[0];

// Returns a boolean (true/ false)
let validTime = finalInputTime >= currentTime;

var hours = date.getHours();
		var minutes = date.getMinutes();
		var ampm = hours >= 12 ? 'pm' : 'am';
		hours = hours % 12;
		hours = hours ? hours : 12; // the hour '0' should be '12'
		minutes = minutes < 10 ? '0'+minutes : minutes;
		var strTime = hours + ':' + minutes + ' ' + ampm;
		console.log(strTime);
		$scope.time = strTime;

		date.setDate(date.getDate()+1);
		month = '' + (date.getMonth() + 1),
		day = '' + date.getDate(1),
		year = date.getFullYear();
		if (month.length < 2) month = '0' + month;
		if (day.length < 2) day = '0' + day;
		var tomorrow = [year, month, day].join('-');
		$scope.tomorrow = tomorrow;