getMonth in javascript gives last month

Question

I am using a datepicker which gives a date in the format Sun Jul 7 00:00:00 EDT 2013. Even though the month says July, if I do a getMonth, it gives me the previous month.

var d1 = new Date("Sun Jul 7 00:00:00 EDT 2013");
d1.getMonth());//gives 6 instead of 7

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Because getmonth() start from 0. You may want to have d1.getMonth() + 1 to achieve what you want.

Answer 2

getMonth() function is zero indexed based. You need to do d1.getMonth() + 1

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