How to add number of days to today's date? [du

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• Add days to JavaScript Date 37 answers

I need to be able to add 1, 2 , 5 or 10 days to today's date using jQuery.

Answer 1

You could extend the javascript Date object like this

Date.prototype.addDays = function(days) {
    this.setDate(this.getDate() + parseInt(days));
    return this;
};

and in your javascript code you could call

var currentDate = new Date();
// to add 4 days to current date
currentDate.addDays(4);

Answer 2

If the times in the Date are not needed, then you can simply use the date object's methods to extract the Month,Year and Day and add "n" number of days to the Day part.

var n=5; //number of days to add. 
var today=new Date(); //Today's Date
var requiredDate=new Date(today.getFullYear(),today.getMonth(),today.getDate()+n)

Ref:Mozilla Javascript GetDate

Edit: Ref: Mozilla JavaScript Date

Answer 3

The prototype-solution from Krishna Chytanya is very nice, but needs a minor but important improvement. The days param must be parsed as Integer to avoid weird calculations when days is a String like "1". (I needed several hours to find out, what went wrong in my application.)

Date.prototype.addDays = function(days) {
    this.setDate(this.getDate() + parseInt(days));
    return this;
};

Even if you do not use this prototype function: Always be sure to have an Integer when using setDate().

Answer 4

you can try this and don't need JQuery: timeSolver.js

For example, add 5 day on today:

var newDay = timeSolver.add(new Date(),5,"day");

You also can add by hour, month...etc. please see for more infomation.