How to get year/month/day from a date object?

Question

alert(dateObj) gives Wed Dec 30 2009 00:00:00 GMT+0800

How to get date in format 2009/12/30?

Answer 1

var dateObj = new Date();
var month = dateObj.getUTCMonth() + 1; //months from 1-12
var day = dateObj.getUTCDate();
var year = dateObj.getUTCFullYear();

newdate = year + "/" + month + "/" + day;

or you can set new date and give the above values