This tutorial discussed how to work with date and time in JavaScript with and without external libraries. Working with dates is always painful in almost (if not all) programming languages.

Is there any pure JS way to get the "short date" format of a JavaScript Date object (i.e. 04/05/2005), while respecting localized differences (i.e. 04/05/2005 in the U.S. is the same as 05/04/2005 ...