JavaScript get Date in YYYYMMDD Format

Recently, I was working in JavaScript and I need to transform a date into the format YYYYMMDD, i.e.

• four digit year
• two digit month
• two digit day

For GMT

var date = new Date();
date.toISOString().split('T')[0].replace('-','').replace('-','');

For Local Time

var date = new Date();
return date.getFullYear().toString() +
    (1 === (date.getMonth()+1).toString().length ? '0' : '') +
    (date.getMonth()+1).toString() +
    (1 === date.getDate().toString().length ? '0' : '') +
    date.getDate().toString();

For Additional Time Formatting Options

If I need further formatting, I would use a third-party library like Luxon.

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