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The following code (see jsfiddle)

var dt = new Date("2016-02-28");
console.log(dt);

logs

Sat Feb 27 2016 19:00:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

Note 27 vs. 28. I need to create a var that's a date, but how to ignore the timezone?

UPDATE:

This solved my problem: parse manually 

var dt = new Date("2016-02-28");
console.log(dt);
var dt2 = new Date(2016,1,28);
console.log(dt2);

logs

Sat Feb 27 2016 19:00:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
Sun Feb 28 2016 00:00:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
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    use ' toLocaleDateString' method of date , example jsfiddle.net/b43k4zdc/2 Commented Mar 25, 2016 at 12:57
  • How did that solve your problem? That solution still will give you the timezone stuff Commented Mar 26, 2016 at 16:57
  • See update in my question Commented Mar 27, 2016 at 10:25

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If you are creating the date object in JS, then you can use toLocaleDateString() method, so that the date is formatted as per locale

var dt = new Date("2016-02-28");
console.log(dt.toLocaleDateString());

Output

2/27/2016

reference : Javascript date object

JavaScript toLocaleDateString() Method

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I need the date variable to be set with 2016/02/28, not to print "2016/02/28"
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for 

var dt = new Date("2016-02-28");

dt.toDateString()

gives you "Sun Feb 28 2016"

dt.toLocaleDateString()

gives you "2/28/2016"

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I need the date variable to be set with 2016/02/28, not to print "2016/02/28"
well all the getters in the api return in string format
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You can just use the getMoneth(), getYear(), and getDate() functions to get your corresponding date. Then i just inserted it into a p tag so you can actually see it!

var d = new Date();
var m = d.getMonth() + 1;
var y = d.getFullYear();
var n = d.getDate();

document.getElementById("result").innerHTML = m + "/" + n + "/" + y
<p id="result">
</p>

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I see 2/25/116 - your answer is 1 month behind and the year is not 116
It still isn't February. The month in javascript is an Array with starting index a 0. So, if you print the way you are suggesting, you need to add 1 to the month in order to get the appropriate number.
@AaronFranco thats actually the problem of Javascript so i just added 1. As you can see here
It's not a "problem of javascript," it's just the way javascript is. Now your code works properly.

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