Incrementing a date in JavaScript

Question

I need to increment a date value by one day in JavaScript.

For example, I have a date value 2010-09-11 and I need to store the date of the next day in a JavaScript variable.

How can I increment a date by a day?

Answer 1

Results in a string representation of tomorrow's date. Use new Date() to get today's date, adding one day using Date.getDate() and Date.setDate(), and converting the Date object to a string.

  const tomorrow = () => {
      let t = new Date();
      t.setDate(t.getDate() + 1);
      return `${t.getFullYear()}-${String(t.getMonth() + 1).padStart(2, '0')}-${String(
        t.getDate()
      ).padStart(2, '0')}`;
    };
    tomorrow();

Answer 2

const date = moment().add(14, "days").toDate() // here we add 14 days with today

Answer 3

Getting the next 5 days:

var date = new Date(),
d = date.getDate(),
m = date.getMonth(),
y = date.getFullYear();


for(i=0; i < 5; i++){
var curdate = new Date(y, m, d+i)
console.log(curdate)
}

Answer 4

 Date.prototype.AddDays = function (days) {
    days = parseInt(days, 10);
    return new Date(this.valueOf() + 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * days);
}

Example

var dt = new Date();
console.log(dt.AddDays(-30));
console.log(dt.AddDays(-10));
console.log(dt.AddDays(-1));
console.log(dt.AddDays(0));
console.log(dt.AddDays(1));
console.log(dt.AddDays(10));
console.log(dt.AddDays(30));

Result

2017-09-03T15:01:37.213Z
2017-09-23T15:01:37.213Z
2017-10-02T15:01:37.213Z
2017-10-03T15:01:37.213Z
2017-10-04T15:01:37.213Z
2017-10-13T15:01:37.213Z
2017-11-02T15:01:37.213Z

Answer 5

Not entirelly sure if it is a BUG(Tested Firefox 32.0.3 and Chrome 38.0.2125.101), but the following code will fail on Brazil (-3 GMT):

Date.prototype.shiftDays = function(days){    
  days = parseInt(days, 10);
  this.setDate(this.getDate() + days);
  return this;
}

$date = new Date(2014, 9, 16,0,1,1);
$date.shiftDays(1);
console.log($date+"");
$date.shiftDays(1);
console.log($date+"");
$date.shiftDays(1);
console.log($date+"");
$date.shiftDays(1);
console.log($date+"");

Result:

Fri Oct 17 2014 00:01:01 GMT-0300
Sat Oct 18 2014 00:01:01 GMT-0300
Sat Oct 18 2014 23:01:01 GMT-0300
Sun Oct 19 2014 23:01:01 GMT-0200

Adding one Hour to the date, will make it work perfectly (but does not solve the problem).

$date = new Date(2014, 9, 16,0,1,1);

Result:

Fri Oct 17 2014 01:01:01 GMT-0300
Sat Oct 18 2014 01:01:01 GMT-0300
Sun Oct 19 2014 01:01:01 GMT-0200
Mon Oct 20 2014 01:01:01 GMT-0200

Answer 6

None of the examples in this answer seem to work with Daylight Saving Time adjustment days. On those days, the number of hours in a day are not 24 (they are 23 or 25, depending on if you are "springing forward" or "falling back".)

The below AddDays javascript function accounts for daylight saving time:

function addDays(date, amount) {
  var tzOff = date.getTimezoneOffset() * 60 * 1000,
      t = date.getTime(),
      d = new Date(),
      tzOff2;

  t += (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24) * amount;
  d.setTime(t);

  tzOff2 = d.getTimezoneOffset() * 60 * 1000;
  if (tzOff != tzOff2) {
    var diff = tzOff2 - tzOff;
    t += diff;
    d.setTime(t);
  }

  return d;
}

Here are the tests I used to test the function:

    var d = new Date(2010,10,7);
    var d2 = AddDays(d, 1);
    document.write(d.toString() + "<br />" + d2.toString());

    d = new Date(2010,10,8);
    d2 = AddDays(d, -1)
    document.write("<hr /><br />" +  d.toString() + "<br />" + d2.toString());

    d = new Date('Sun Mar 27 2011 01:59:00 GMT+0100 (CET)');
    d2 = AddDays(d, 1)
    document.write("<hr /><br />" +  d.toString() + "<br />" + d2.toString());

    d = new Date('Sun Mar 28 2011 01:59:00 GMT+0100 (CET)');
    d2 = AddDays(d, -1)
    document.write("<hr /><br />" +  d.toString() + "<br />" + d2.toString());