At Microsoft's Ignite 2017 conference today, the company announced a range of new features that will be coming to its Excel application, such as JavaScript Custom Functions and more.

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 ...