Class Date

Sample date:
'Wed Jan 10 2007 15:05:01 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time)'

Format  Output      Description
------  ----------  --------------------------------------------------------------
  d      10         Day of the month, 2 digits with leading zeros
  D      Wed        A textual representation of a day, three letters
  j      10         Day of the month without leading zeros
  l      Wednesday  A full textual representation of the day of the week
  S      th         English ordinal day of month suffix, 2 chars (use with j)
  w      3          Numeric representation of the day of the week
  z      9          The julian date, or day of the year (0-365)
  W      01         ISO-8601 2-digit week number of year, weeks starting on Monday (00-52)
  F      January    A full textual representation of the month
  m      01         Numeric representation of a month, with leading zeros
  M      Jan        Month name abbreviation, three letters
  n      1          Numeric representation of a month, without leading zeros
  t      31         Number of days in the given month
  L      0          Whether it's a leap year (1 if it is a leap year, else 0)
  Y      2007       A full numeric representation of a year, 4 digits
  y      07         A two digit representation of a year
  a      pm         Lowercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem
  A      PM         Uppercase Ante meridiem and Post meridiem
  g      3          12-hour format of an hour without leading zeros
  G      15         24-hour format of an hour without leading zeros
  h      03         12-hour format of an hour with leading zeros
  H      15         24-hour format of an hour with leading zeros
  i      05         Minutes with leading zeros
  s      01         Seconds, with leading zeros
  O      -0600      Difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours
  T      CST        Timezone setting of the machine running the code
  Z      -21600     Timezone offset in seconds (negative if west of UTC, positive if east)

var dt = new Date('1/10/2007 03:05:01 PM GMT-0600');
document.write(dt.format('Y-m-d'));                         //2007-01-10
document.write(dt.format('F j, Y, g:i a'));                 //January 10, 2007, 3:05 pm
document.write(dt.format('l, \\t\\he dS of F Y h:i:s A'));  //Wednesday, the 10th of January 2007 03:05:01 PM

Date.patterns = {
    ISO8601Long:"Y-m-d H:i:s",
    ISO8601Short:"Y-m-d",
    ShortDate: "n/j/Y",
    LongDate: "l, F d, Y",
    FullDateTime: "l, F d, Y g:i:s A",
    MonthDay: "F d",
    ShortTime: "g:i A",
    LongTime: "g:i:s A",
    SortableDateTime: "Y-m-d\\TH:i:s",
    UniversalSortableDateTime: "Y-m-d H:i:sO",
    YearMonth: "F, Y"
};

var dt = new Date();
document.write(dt.format(Date.patterns.ShortDate));