JavaScript Date.getDay() with hardcoded date returning wrong day?

Asked Apr 06 '20 at 20:41

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A JSFiddle is worth 1000 words: https://jsfiddle.net/cnuss/6731pakm/1/

What I'm seeing is that date.getDay() is returning the wrong value.

function getDay(date: Date) {
  return "The current day is: " + date.getDay();
}


document.querySelector("#app").innerHTML = getDay(new Date('2020-04-06'));

The return value is The current day is: 0

2020-04-06 is most certainly a Monday. So it should return 1?

What's going on?

edited Apr 06 '20 at 20:42

isherwood

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asked Apr 06 '20 at 20:41

Christian Nuss

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Does this answer your question? [JavaScript's getDate returns wrong date](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2488313/javascripts-getdate-returns-wrong-date) – takendarkk Apr 06 '20 at 20:43
What timezone are you living in? It does return 1 for me. – Bergi Apr 06 '20 at 20:45
I'm in America/Los_Angeles – Christian Nuss Apr 06 '20 at 20:48
'2020-04-06' is parsed as UTC, *getDay* returns the local day so if you're west of Greenwich, it will be 5 April so return 0 for Sunday. – RobG Apr 06 '20 at 23:09

JavaScript Date.getDay() with hardcoded date returning wrong day?

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