Date generated by moment.js having invalid property

Question

The below function gives me the next business date:

function nextBusinessDate() {

      var today = moment();
      var tomorrow = today.add(1, 'days');

      // if saturday
      if (tomorrow.day() === 6) {
        tomorrow = tomorrow.add(2, 'days');
      } else if (tomorrow.day() === 0) {
        tomorrow = tomorrow.add(1, 'days');
      }

      return new Date(tomorrow._d);
    }

The date that it returns looks something like this:

myDate = nextBusinessDate();

// This is what myDate looks like in developer console
myDate: Fri Jun 19 2015 07:24:40 GMT-0400 (EDT)
__proto__: Invalid Date

The issue I am facing is that this wont get stored in firebase (which uses mongo I believe)

What am I missing here ?

Also, looks like this is the right behaviour: https://github.com/moment/moment/issues/1015 — Jamiec, Jun 18 '15 at 11:42

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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As in this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/26744045/1167456 you should not be using the _d method as it is a private method in the API. There is already a built-in converter to javascript Date for moment objects: .toDate()

Your return line should look like this:

return tomorrow.toDate();

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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answered Jun 18 '15 at 11:41

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 18 '15 at 11:39

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You shouldn't be using the private d. Try using .toDate().

answered Jun 18 '15 at 11:39

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Date generated by moment.js having invalid property

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