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I am trying to pre-populate a text box with today's date, but for some reason, it keeps showing today's date as 5/30/13, which is a month behind. This code should just be pulling the local time so why is it a month behind? Here is my code, can someone please tell me why the current date is off...Please help, :)

<script type="text/javascript"> /*<![CDATA[*/ function my_curr_date() { var currentDate = new Date() var day = currentDate.getDate(); var month = currentDate.getMonth() + 1; var year = currentDate.getFullYear(); var my_date = month+"-"+day+"-"+year; document.getElementById("dateField").value=my_date; } function orderReady(orderTime){ dateToday.setDate(dateToday.getDate()+orderTime); var ready=dateToday.getMonth()+"/" +dateToday.getDate()+"/"+dateToday.getFullYear(); document.getElementById("duedateField").value=due_date; } /*]]>*/ 

<body onload='return my_curr_date();'> 
<p>Today's Date<br /> <input type='text' name='dateField' id='dateField' value='' /><br /> Pick-up Date<br /> <input type='text' name='duedateField' id='duedateField' value='' /></p>
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Date.getMonth:

The value returned by getMonth is an integer between 0 and 11. 0 corresponds to January, 1 to February, and so on.

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Better to reference ECMA-262.
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<p>Today's Date<br /> <input id="date" type="text" name="curDate" size="50" /><br /> Pick-up Date<br /> <input type='text' name='duedateField' id='duedateField' value='' /></p>

Use this javascript:

var month = Date.getMonth(); var date = Date.getDate(); var year = Date.getYear(); var deliverymonth; var deliverydate; var deliveryyear; var message = month + "/" + date + "/" + year; document.getElementById('date').innerHTML=message; if(month == 11 && date >= 29){ deliveryyear = year + 1; deliverymonth = 1; deleverydate = date - 28; }else{ switch(month) { case 0,2,4,6,7,9,11: if(date >= 29){ deliverymonth = month + 1; deliverydate = date - 28; }else{ deliverydate = date + 3; } break; case 3,5,8,10: if(date >= 28){ deliverymonth = month + 1; deliverydate = date - 27; }else{ deliverydate = date + 3; } break; case 1: if(date >= 26){ deliverymonth = month + 1; deliverydate = date - 25; }else{ deliverydate = date + 3; } break; default: break; } var deliverymessage = deliverymonth + "/" + deliverydate + "/" + deliveryyear; document.getElementById('duedateField').innerHTML=deliverymessage;
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Thank you for your quick responses... I am still running into issues where no the field is not populating at all. I am including the total script below for you to see. I am so confused as to why this isn't working. Again, your help has been and is much appreciated.
<script type="text/javascript"> var month = Date.getMonth(); var date = Date.getDate(); var year = Date.getYear(); var message = month + "/" + date + "/" + year; document.getElementById('date').innerHTML=message; function loadDate(){ var today=dateToday.getMonth() + "/" +dateToday.getDate()+"/"+dateToday.getFullYear(); document.forms[0].curDate.value=today; } function orderReady(orderTime){ dateToday.setDate(dateToday.getDate()+orderTime); var ready=dateToday.getMonth()+"/" +dateToday.getDate()+"/"+dateToday.getFullYear(); document.forms[0].puDate.value=ready; } /*]]>*/ </script>
Ok, so I got the date to prepopulate correctly, but now the picker won't work. Basically, I have to pre-populate the 1st text box with the current date, then populate the 2nd text box with the date + 1-3 days based on the radio box chosen. I have updated my code with the full Javascript code so you can see what it is I'm doing.
see my edit for added content

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