30-seconds-of-code/snippets/getColonTimeFromDate.md

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getColonTimeFromDate	date,intermediate

Returns a string of the form HH:MM:SS from a Date object.

Use Date.prototype.toTimeString() and String.prototype.slice() to get the HH:MM:SS part of a given Date object.

const getColonTimeFromDate = date => date.toTimeString().slice(0, 8);

getColonTimeFromDate(new Date()); // "08:38:00"