.toDateString without the 'Day name'

Question

I am using this code to get the date into a span with id 'today'. However now requirements mean I need to take the actual day of the week out of the line. So just 14 Sep 2018 (for example?) Is there a way to achieve this without spelling out the whole date.

$('#today').html(d.toDateString());

Salman A had the perfect answer. Can you explain what it did. It took the 4th string from the line? — conye9980, Sep 14 '18 at 12:56
@conye9980 It returns the string starting at the 5th character (zero based index - removes characters 0-4). — Reinstate Monica Cellio, Sep 14 '18 at 13:18

Mamun · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-14T13:34:08.513

The toDateString() method returns the date portion of a Date object in human readable form in American English.

You can split the string with empty string then rearrange the string in the way you want:

var d =  new Date().toDateString(); //Fri Sep 14 2018
d = d.split(' ');                   //["Fri","Sep","14","2018"]
$('#today').html(d[2] + ' ' + d[1] + ' ' + d[3]);

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<span id="today"></span>

.toDateString without the 'Day name'

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