getMonth() in Date shows wrong value

Question

I am trying to get the month of the given date as a string in javaScript but I get the wrong month of the date displayed.

var d = new Date("Sun Dec 13 2020 08:00:00 GMT+0530");
console.log(d.getMonth());

I get in the console output for month as 11 for some reason.

dateObj.getMonth() return integer range from 0 to 11. 0 => January, 1 => Feb ...... 11=> December. Check this for more details: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/getMonth — Harinder Singh, Dec 13 '20 at 08:36
The answer is already in here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18624326/getmonth-in-javascript-gives-previous-month — Pulsara Sandeepa, Dec 13 '20 at 08:48
Does this answer your question? [getMonth in javascript gives previous month](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18624326/getmonth-in-javascript-gives-previous-month) — Praneet Dixit, Dec 13 '20 at 09:36

Aalexander · Answer 1 · 2021-01-09T09:04:16.823

2

Solution

The range begins at zero and not at one

So refering the mdn docs

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

The range from getMonth() is 0-11

So the solution is just to add +1 to the result of the getMonth() method

console.log(d.getMonth() +1 );

edited Jan 09 '21 at 09:04

answered Dec 13 '20 at 09:51

Aalexander

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 13 '20 at 08:35

1

the count starts from 0 -january, 1-feb,...11-december

answered Dec 13 '20 at 08:35

Abhishek

score -1 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 13 '20 at 09:45

-1

just call this and it is done.

function month(){
 const today = new Date();
 const options = {
    month: "long"
  };

  return today.toLocaleDateString("en-US", options);
}

edited Dec 13 '20 at 09:45

Wai Ha Lee

answered Dec 13 '20 at 08:47

Yash Garg