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Shane
Shane

Reputation: 5687

Get previous year start month/date and end month/date

How can i get the previous year start date/month and end date/month

Below is the code, i have tried, but its not working...

var lastyear = new Date(new Date().getFullYear(), 0, 1);
lastyear.setFullYear(lastyear.getFullYear() - 1);
var start = (new Date(lastyear, 0, 1)).getTime(),
    end = (new Date(lastyear, 11, 31)).getTime();

Technically i want 01/01/2015 to 12/31/2015. What is the mistake i am doing here?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2663

Answers (1)

adibble
adibble

Reputation: 123

You ran into issues because the you were using the Date() constructor incorrectly. According to http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_dates.asp, the Date constructor accepts the following inputs:

new Date(year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds)

In your original code, you were passing a Date object into the "year" argument. I changed:

new Date(lastyear, 0, 1)

to

new Date(lastyear.getFullYear(), 0, 1)

which fixed the problem.

var lastyear = new Date(new Date().getFullYear() - 1, 0, 1);
var start = (new Date(lastyear.getFullYear(), 0, 1)).getTime(),
    end = (new Date(lastyear.getFullYear(), 11, 31)).getTime();

Is this the solution you are looking for?

Upvotes: 5

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