What is the best way to determine the number of da

Question

I've been using this function but I'd like to know what's the most efficient and accurate way to get it.

function daysInMonth(iMonth, iYear) {
   return 32 - new Date(iYear, iMonth, 32).getDate();
}

Answer 1

In a single line:

// month is 1-12
function getDaysInMonth(year, month){
    return month == 2 ? 28 + (year % 4 == 0 ? (year % 100 == 0 ? (year % 400 == 0 ? 1 : 0) : 1):0) : 31 - (month - 1) % 7 % 2;
}

Answer 2

Considering leap years:

function (year, month) {
    var isLeapYear = ((year % 4 === 0 && year % 100 !== 0) || year % 400 === 0);

    return [31, (isLeapYear ? 29 : 28), 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31][month];
}

Answer 3

function numberOfDays(iMonth, iYear) {
         var myDate = new Date(iYear, iMonth + 1, 1);  //find the fist day of next month
         var newDate = new Date(myDate - 1);  //find the last day
            return newDate.getDate();         //return # of days in this month
        }

Answer 4

Some answers (also on other questions) had leap-year problems or used the Date-object. Although javascript's Date object covers approximately 285616 years (100,000,000 days) on either side of January 1 1970, I was fed up with all kinds of unexpected date inconsistencies across different browsers (most notably year 0 to 99). I was also curious how to calculate it.

So I wrote a simple and above all, small algorithm to calculate the correct (Proleptic Gregorian / Astronomical / ISO 8601:2004 (clause 4.3.2.1), so year 0 exists and is a leap year and negative years are supported) number of day's for a given month and year.
It uses the short-circuit bitmask-modulo leapYear algorithm (slightly modified for js) and common mod-8 month algorithm.

Note that in AD/BC notation, year 0 AD/BC does not exist: instead year 1 BC is the leap-year!
IF you need to account for BC notation then simply subtract one year of the (otherwise positive) year-value first!! (Or subtract the year from 1 for further year-calculations.)

function daysInMonth(m, y){
  return m===2?y&3||!(y%25)&&y&15?28:29:30+(m+(m>>3)&1);
}

<!-- example for the snippet -->
<input type="text" value="enter year" onblur="
  for( var r='', i=0, y=+this.value
     ; 12>i++
     ; r+= 'Month: ' + i + ' has ' + daysInMonth(i, y) + ' days<br>'
     );
  this.nextSibling.innerHTML=r;
" /><div></div>

Note, months must be 1-based!

Note, this is a different algorithm then the magic number lookup I used in my Javascript calculate the day of the year (1 - 366) answer, because here the extra branch for the leap-year is only needed for February.

Answer 5

If you want the number of days in the current month of a Date object, consider the following method:

Date.prototype.getNumberOfDaysInMonth = function(monthOffset) {
    if (monthOffset !== undefined) {
        return new Date(this.getFullYear(), this.getMonth()+monthOffset, 0).getDate();
    } else {
        return new Date(this.getFullYear(), this.getMonth(), 0).getDate();
    }
}

Then you can run it like this:

var myDate = new Date();
myDate.getNumberOfDaysInMonth(); // Returns 28, 29, 30, 31, etc. as necessary
myDate.getNumberOfDaysInMonth(); // BONUS: This also tells you the number of days in past/future months!

Answer 6

To take away confusion I would probably make the month string based as it is currently 1 based.

function daysInMonth(month,year) {
    monthNum =  new Date(Date.parse(month +" 1,"+year)).getMonth()+1
    return new Date(year, monthNum, 0).getDate();
}

daysInMonth('feb', 2015)
//28

daysInMonth('feb', 2008)
//29