# Today's date format
**URL:** https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/todays-date-format/4855
**Category:** JavaScript
**Created:** [October 4, 2017, 8:53am UTC](https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/todays-date-format/4855 "2017-10-04T08:53:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@cortell](https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/u/cortell)
#### Post date: [October 4, 2017, 8:53am UTC](https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/todays-date-format/4855/1 "2017-10-04T08:53:42Z")
Hi,
I’m really new to Kotlin and i’m struggelling
to display today’s date formatted like dd/mm/YYY in a JS project.
Is there a way to go through this without using the magic “js” method ?
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### Author:  [@bashor](https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/u/bashor)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2017, 8:41pm UTC](https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/todays-date-format/4855/2 "2017-10-09T20:41:09Z")
> Is there a way to go through this without using the magic “js” method ?
It’s possible, but until [KT-2506](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-2506) or [KT-20694](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-20694) are not fixed it requires to write some declarations, like:
([open on try.kotl.in](https://try.kotl.in/#/UserProjects/cc2o9767q7p0mg6iabgld4kd3p/3kjmvbtod5vrhlnv5ce1nmkqm8))
```kotlin
external interface JsDateLocaleOptions {
// The representation of the year. Possible values are "numeric", "2-digit".
val year: String
// The representation of the month. Possible values are "numeric", "2-digit", "narrow", "short", "long".
val month: String
// The representation of the day. Possible values are "numeric", "2-digit".
val day: String
}
@JsName("Date")
external class JsDate {
constructor(s: String)
fun toLocaleDateString(locale: String, options: JsDateLocaleOptions? = definedExternally): String
}
fun main(args: Array) {
val myoptions = object : JsDateLocaleOptions {
override val year = "2-digit"
override val month = "2-digit"
override val day = "2-digit"
}
println(JsDate("12/22/2018").toLocaleDateString("en-us", myoptions))
}
```