New Date() returns {} instead of current date

[Drew_Gallagher]

• Goal:
  I have a function that is using the Date object from javascript in many places.
  The Date not being returned after creating a new date object like so

const currentDate = new Date()
console.log(currentDate)

Currently it returning {} when printing it out.
The expected behavior is to have it return the current correct date and not {}. {} is not usable and won't return any properties, because it's an empty object

• Screenshots:

[jg80]

If you want to log the date to the console, you need to make it a string (not a date object) with console.log(String(currentDate)):

[Drew_Gallagher]

Thanks! Yeah I tried this the other day and it worked, but I wonder if the team is able to resolve logging the object itself. Could be tricky for new users who don't know how to do this

[Paulo]

Hi @Drew_Gallagher, thank you for your feedback! I agree, this can be confusing for our users.

We just created the FR to log the date object without String conversion.