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title: "Date Component"
slug: "date-component"
updated: 2023-02-13T09:57:20Z
published: 2023-02-13T09:57:20Z
canonical: "help.pillir.io/date-component"
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# Date Component

The Date component consists of blocks that perform all operations related to date and time.

## New Date

This block returns the current date as an object.

| Block Layout | Generated Code |
| --- | --- |
| ![Date](https://cdn.document360.io/718af901-247b-46be-8ace-83da21839237/Images/Documentation/Date.png) | ```javascript new Date(); ``` |

## Date Format

This block returns the date object in the default format.

| Input | Output | Block Layout | Generated Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Date Text value as a variable or text - input-1 Format of the date text (input-1)as a variable or text - input-2 | Returns the default Date format for the given date. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/718af901-247b-46be-8ace-83da21839237/Images/Documentation/image-1620914516438.png) | ```javascript __er.newDate('2020/01/12', 'YYYY/MM/DD'); ``` |

## Date Properties

This block returns the details of the date property selected for a specified date.

| Input | Output | Block Layout | Generated Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Select the type of date property from the dropdown list Date input as a variable or object - input-1 | Returns the data property as text | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/718af901-247b-46be-8ace-83da21839237/Images/Documentation/image-1620914469434.png) ![](https://cdn.document360.io/718af901-247b-46be-8ace-83da21839237/Images/Documentation/image-1620914488282.png) | ```javascript (new Date()).getFullYear(); ``` |

## Date to Text

This block returns the date in a string format.

| Input | Output | Block Layout | Generated Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Date object value as a variable or a date object - input-1 Format value as a variable or text - input-2 | Returns Date as a text value for the given format. | ![](https://cdn.document360.io/718af901-247b-46be-8ace-83da21839237/Images/Documentation/image-1620914540010.png) | ```javascript __er.dateToString((new Date()), 'YYYY/MM/DD'); ``` |