Is there a built-in function or plugin to handle date formatting in JavaScript?

No, there is nothing built-in for Dateobjects, but there are a bunch of libraries to deal with and format them:

date.js
moment.js
XDate
Date and Date.Extras in Mootools
Date in Sugar
Dojo.date
a few functions in Mochikit
DateFormat (only PHP's date)
date at php.js
DataType in YUI, especially for i18n
date-functions.js, used especially by JQuery datetimepicker plugin

You've got some extraneous code that you can clean up:

var months = ["January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"],
    today = new Date(),
    completeDate = today.getDate() + " " + months[today.getMonth()] + ", " + today.getFullYear();

$('#theEndDate').html(completeDate);

Using a library isn't always the answer, especially if you are only going to use it in one spot.

Is there a built-in function or plugin to handle date formatting in JavaScript?

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