GlideDate formatting

[Wade Clairmont]

Quick share, relevant for other we are not sure.

We found this year that date formatting using

var gd = new GlideDate();

gd.setValue('2024-12-31');

gd.getByFormat("M/d/Y"); produces a new date adding 1 year i.e. result = 

12/31/2025

We had UI Pages formatting dates and had to update to

var gd = new GlideDate();

gd.setValue('2024-12-31');

var date = gd.getByFormat("M/d/y"); to produce correct date i.e. result =

12/31/2024

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@Wade Clairmont 

can you share your complete script?

[Ankur Bawiskar]

@Wade Clairmont 

you can try this, always use GlideDateTime and then get the date

var gd = new GlideDateTime();
gd.setValue('2024-12-31 00:00:00');
var dt = new GlideDate();
dt.setValue(gd.getDate());
var date = dt.getByFormat("M/d/y"); 
gs.info(date);

Output:

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[yuvarajkate]

Try using this:

var gd = new GlideDate();
gd.setValue('2024-12-31');
// Correctly returns 12/31/2024
var date = gd.getByFormat("M/d/y"); 

• "M/d/y" returns the date in MM/DD/YY format, where y correctly refers to the two-digit year (2024).
• "M/d/Y" can sometimes cause unexpected results due to its handling of four-digit years.