javascript - How to set Hours,minutes,seconds to Date which is in GMT

Question

I have Date Object ,I wanted to clear HOUR,MINUTE and SECONDS from My Date.Please help me how to do it in Javascript. Am i doing wrong ?

var date = Date("Fri, 26 Sep 2014 18:30:00 GMT");
      date.setHours(0);
      date.setMinutes(0);
      date.setSeconds(0);

Expected result is

Fri, 26 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMT

How Do I achieve ?

Answer 1

According to MDN the setHours function actually takes additional optional parameters to set both minutes, seconds and milliseconds. Hence we may simply write

// dateString is for example "Fri, 26 Sep 2014 18:30:00 GMT"
function getFormattedDate(dateString) {
   var date = new Date(dateString);
   date.setHours(0, 0, 0);   // Set hours, minutes and seconds
   return date.toString();
}