Javascript date object

Question

I am instantiating a Javascript Date object in my script using the setFullYear, setMonth,....methods in the Date object. But the resulting Date object shows the year and month as 1+. For example if I set the year to 2012 and month to 12. The Date object would show up as 2013, January....

How can I avoid this?

Thanks.

Stanley · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-07 02:18:25Z

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Month is zero-based. You should set 11 for December.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/setMonth

edited Dec 7, 2012 at 2:18

answered Dec 7, 2012 at 2:13

Stanley

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Lee Taylor Over a year ago

I'll +1 this if you remove the link to w3schools and replace with developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Reference/… w3schools is renowned for misinformation/errors

Lee Taylor Over a year ago

and there's your +1. Seriously, have a look at the last link I posted.

Stanley Over a year ago

@LeeTaylor, thanks for the link. I am not aware of that previously. w3schools always come up top in Google's search result page. So I thought the information in their site is reliable.

Lee Taylor Over a year ago

No worries. The worrying this is that many people probably believe they're reliable too. Also, Mozilla's documentation is well regarded.

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