How to determine the active month and today's date in Angular.UI Calendar?

Question

Angular

I'm using angular-ui.github.io/ui-calendar
But I can't get what I need with the getDate and getToday methods.
1. getDate returns returns the date 2016-06-25T09:40:45.802Z but in quotation marks, it cannot be filtered through | date
2. getToday does not return at all, you have to use new Date, but I would like to associate the functions with the calendar as much as possible.

$scope.getDate = function() {
            return uiCalendarConfig.calendars['myCalendar1'].fullCalendar('getDate');
        }
        $scope.getToday = function() {
            return uiCalendarConfig.calendars['myCalendar1'].fullCalendar('today');
        }