date fields of JavaScript not alerting the correct dates

Question

I am trying to use the Date field of JavaScript as below

var dateFrom = new Date(2013,02,03,00,00,00,00); 
var dateTo = new Date(2014,03,01,23,59,59,00);  
alert (dateFrom); 
alert(dateTo);

These are not giving the correct dates.. What am I doing wrong?

@FelixKling - Dilbert is getting the wrong dates, and he's expecting to get the right dates! Jeezes, it's right there in the question? — adeneo, Feb 02 '14 at 02:59
@FelixKling - Well now you know, something is wrong that needs to be right, we don't really need to know any more do we. — adeneo, Feb 02 '14 at 03:02
@dollarvar - Nope, we're dead serious. All questions should just be "something is wrong, please fix", and we'll just figure out the rest ourselves. — adeneo, Feb 02 '14 at 03:05
@adeneo: Can I use my crystal ball? Or is that against the rules? — Felix Kling, Feb 02 '14 at 03:05
@adeneo Nooo, you cannot do that? Test cases for work are always like this. — loveNoHate, Feb 02 '14 at 03:06
@FelixKling - Doesn't everyone use a crystal ball, don't think there's any rules against that? — adeneo, Feb 02 '14 at 03:06
possible duplicate of [javascript is creating date wrong month](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12254333/javascript-is-creating-date-wrong-month) — Felix Kling, Feb 02 '14 at 03:12
(^^^ if that's actually not your problem, you know what you have to do) — Felix Kling, Feb 02 '14 at 03:13
@dollarvar: Wormholes are dangerous, I'm not going to play around with those :P — Felix Kling, Feb 02 '14 at 03:13
@FelixKling - Man, that's some crystal ball, wish I had one like that, mine just randomly spits out gibberish that I keep posting on this site. I followed your ball(s) advice and voted for the same ! — adeneo, Feb 02 '14 at 03:23
Thanks everyone for your valuable inputs. Dilbert will try to less dilbertish and more inputish when asking future question. Thanks and I have learnt why the error happened . Date field starts from zero — , Feb 02 '14 at 06:36

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 02 '14 at 02:58

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Months start from index 0.

You surely expect: 3 February and 1 March
But you got: 3 March and 1 April

Try this:

var dateFrom = new Date(2013,1,3,0,0,0,0); 
var dateTo = new Date(2014,2,1,23,59,59,0);  
alert (dateFrom); 
alert(dateTo);

answered Feb 02 '14 at 02:58

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If that is indeed the problem (which it most likely is) then it's a duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/q/12254333/218196 – Felix Kling Feb 02 '14 at 03:03

date fields of JavaScript not alerting the correct dates

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