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Philipp Zettl
Philipp Zettl

Reputation: 196

Google Apps Script get current month from Date()

I'm currently working on a function to generate data according to a start and an end date.

While I was testing my functions I've realized some wrong calculated values.

Long story short the getMonth() method for Date objects is returning a unexpected value.

var date = new Date();
console.log(date.getMonth());
var date2 = new Date(2014, 1, 1);
console.log(date2);

Can someone explain to me the reason why to start a month at 0, even if it's not possible to create a right Date object using that index.

Even though date2 my second example is from the official docu of JS and is returning a unexpected value according to the example giving in the "Parameters" section.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 24268

Answers (1)

Philipp Zettl
Philipp Zettl

Reputation: 196

As @Airwavezx mentioned the code was correct.

tl;tr I forgot to use timezones and JS is counting months from 0

So a solution to my question could be: 

var date = new Date();
console.log(date.getMonth()+1);
var date2 = new Date("2014-01-01T00:00:00Z");
console.log(date2);

Upvotes: 3

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