Answers for "to local date string"

java 8 string to localdate

package com.mkyong.date;

import java.time.LocalDate;

public class JavaDateExample1 {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        String date = "2016-08-16";

        //default, ISO_LOCAL_DATE
        LocalDate localDate = LocalDate.parse(date);

        System.out.println(localDate);

    }
}
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toLocaleDateString() options

new Date("1983-March-25").toLocaleDateString('fr-CA', { year: 'numeric', month: '2-digit', day: '2-digit' })
'03/25/1983'

new date to locale string

#New date to locale string:

const event = new Date(Date.UTC(2012, 11, 20, 3, 0, 0));

const options = { weekday: 'long', year: 'numeric', month: 'long', day: 'numeric' };

console.log(event.toLocaleDateString('de-DE', options));
// expected output: Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2012

console.log(event.toLocaleDateString('ar-EG', options));
// expected output: الخميس، ٢٠ ديسمبر، ٢٠١٢

console.log(event.toLocaleDateString(undefined, options));
// expected output: Thursday, December 20, 2012 (varies according to default locale)