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Reformat Date

Problem statement

Given a date string in the form Day Month Year, where:

  • Day is in the set {"1st", "2nd", "3rd", "4th", ..., "30th", "31st"}.
  • Month is in the set {"Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"}.
  • Year is in the range [1900, 2100].

Convert the date string to the format YYYY-MM-DD, where:

  • YYYY denotes the 4 digit year.
  • MM denotes the 2 digit month.
  • DD denotes the 2 digit day.

Example 1:

Input: date = "20th Oct 2052"Output: "2052-10-20"

Example 2:

Input: date = "6th Jun 1933"Output: "1933-06-06"

Example 3:

Input: date = "26th May 1960"Output: "1960-05-26"

Constraints:

  • The given dates are guaranteed to be valid, so no error handling is necessary.

My solution

/**
* @param {string} date
* @return {string}
*/
var reformatDate = function(inputDate) {
const months = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"]

const [date, month, year] = inputDate.split(/\W/);

const formatDate = parseInt(date, 10);
const formatMonth = months.indexOf(month);
const formatYear = parseInt(year, 10);

const correctDate = new Date(formatYear, formatMonth, formatDate);

// console.log(correctDate, formatYear, formatMonth, formatDate)

return correctDate.toISOString().substring(0, 10);
};