Javascript date - month always increment

Question

Hello I encountered strange behavior with javascript date. I show in this example:

var date = new Date(2017, 07, 22);
console.log(date); //22. 8. 2017
console.log(date.toLocaleDateString()) //Tue Aug 22 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0200

Why is month always increment? Is normal behavior or its my problem? Thanks

It's not your problem:month Integer value representing the month, beginning with 0 for January to 11 for December. — huan feng, Jul 27 '17 at 06:03
Possible duplicate of [Javascript Date.UTC() function is off by a month?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1507619/javascript-date-utc-function-is-off-by-a-month) — t.niese, Jul 27 '17 at 06:04
or [javascript is creating date wrong month](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12254333/javascript-is-creating-date-wrong-month) — t.niese, Jul 27 '17 at 06:05

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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Javascript Date's month starts from 0. So 7 is actually 8th Month which is August.

month

Integer value representing the month, beginning with 0 for January to 11 for December.

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

Community

answered Jul 27 '17 at 06:02

Suresh Atta

Chava Geldzahler · Answer 2 · 2017-07-27T06:13:50.330

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In the JavaScript Date() object, the the month is an integer, starting at 0.

and so on.

edited Jul 27 '17 at 06:13

answered Jul 27 '17 at 06:03

Chava Geldzahler

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 27 '17 at 06:06

0

Javascript date month starts form zero index only ie jan is 0 and december is 11

answered Jul 27 '17 at 06:06

yasarui

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