Extract the date from GlideDateTime()

[carlocsa]

Hello Experts!

How do I extract or use the date from GlideDateTime()?

Thank you!

Carlo

[Shishir Srivast · Accepted solution]

Please try,

var sdt = new GlideDateTime();

var dt = sdt.getDisplayValue().split(' ')[0];

gs.print(dt);

[Tristan Cricket]

var rightnow = new GlideDateTime();

var rightnow_date = rightnow.getLocalDate();

[Eric Jensema]

This works better than the original answer. If you're running this as a user, gdt.getLocalDate() will give you a string of yyyy-mm-dd, whereas gdt.getDisplayValue().split(' ')[0]; will return it with the user's preferences, which may not be what you expected. 

If you have to do a compare, using the yyyy-dd-mm string will let you compare greater than/less than comparisons directly on a string value, and get the result you expect.

[Karthik Buska]

var gdt = new GlideDateTime();

var dt = gdt.getDate();

gs.print(dt);

This would be more efficient as we can avoid using splits and typecasting