JavaScript function to add X months to a date

Question

I’m looking for the easiest, cleanest way to add X months to a JavaScript date.

I’d rather not handle the rolling over of the year or have to write my own function.

Is there something built in that can do this?

Answer 1

d = new Date();

alert(d.getMonth()+1);

Months have a 0-based index, it should alert(4) which is 5 (may);

Answer 2

Just to add on to the accepted answer and the comments.

var x = 12; //or whatever offset
var CurrentDate = new Date();

//For the very rare cases like the end of a month
//eg. May 30th - 3 months will give you March instead of February
var date = CurrentDate.getDate();
CurrentDate.setDate(1);
CurrentDate.setMonth(CurrentDate.getMonth()+X);
CurrentDate.setDate(date);

Answer 3

Simple solution: 2678400000 is 31 day in milliseconds

var oneMonthFromNow = new Date((+new Date) + 2678400000);

Update:

Use this data to build our own function:

• 2678400000 - 31 day
• 2592000000 - 30 days
• 2505600000 - 29 days
• 2419200000 - 28 days

Answer 4

I wrote this alternative solution which works fine to me. It is useful when you wish calculate the end of a contract. For example, start=2016-01-15, months=6, end=2016-7-14 (i.e. last day - 1):

<script>
function daysInMonth(year, month)
{
    return new Date(year, month + 1, 0).getDate();
}

function addMonths(date, months)
{
    var target_month = date.getMonth() + months;
    year = date.getFullYear() + parseInt(target_month / 12);
    month = target_month % 12;
    day = date.getDate();
    last_day = daysInMonth(year, month);
    if (day > last_day)
    {
        day = last_day;
    }
    new_date = new Date(year, month, day);
    return new_date;
}

var endDate = addMonths(startDate, months);
</script>

Examples:

addMonths(new Date("2016-01-01"), 1); // 2016-01-31
addMonths(new Date("2016-01-01"), 2); // 2016-02-29 (2016 is a leap year)
addMonths(new Date("2016-01-01"), 13); // 2017-01-31
addMonths(new Date("2016-01-01"), 14); // 2017-02-28

Answer 5

addDateMonate : function( pDatum, pAnzahlMonate )
{
    if ( pDatum === undefined )
    {
        return undefined;
    }

    if ( pAnzahlMonate === undefined )
    {
        return pDatum;
    }

    var vv = new Date();

    var jahr = pDatum.getFullYear();
    var monat = pDatum.getMonth() + 1;
    var tag = pDatum.getDate();

    var add_monate_total = Math.abs( Number( pAnzahlMonate ) );

    var add_jahre = Number( Math.floor( add_monate_total / 12.0 ) );
    var add_monate_rest = Number( add_monate_total - ( add_jahre * 12.0 ) );

    if ( Number( pAnzahlMonate ) > 0 )
    {
        jahr += add_jahre;
        monat += add_monate_rest;

        if ( monat > 12 )
        {
            jahr += 1;
            monat -= 12;
        }
    }
    else if ( Number( pAnzahlMonate ) < 0 )
    {
        jahr -= add_jahre;
        monat -= add_monate_rest;

        if ( monat <= 0 )
        {
            jahr = jahr - 1;
            monat = 12 + monat;
        }
    }

    if ( ( Number( monat ) === 2 ) && ( Number( tag ) === 29 ) )
    {
        if ( ( ( Number( jahr ) % 400 ) === 0 ) || ( ( Number( jahr ) % 100 ) > 0 ) && ( ( Number( jahr ) % 4 ) === 0 ) )
        {
            tag = 29;
        }
        else
        {
            tag = 28;
        }
    }

    return new Date( jahr, monat - 1, tag );
}


testAddMonate : function( pDatum , pAnzahlMonate )
{
    var datum_js = fkDatum.getDateAusTTMMJJJJ( pDatum );
    var ergebnis = fkDatum.addDateMonate( datum_js, pAnzahlMonate );

    app.log( "addDateMonate( \"" + pDatum + "\", " + pAnzahlMonate + " ) = \"" + fkDatum.getStringAusDate( ergebnis ) + "\"" );
},


test1 : function()
{
    app.testAddMonate( "15.06.2010",    10 );
    app.testAddMonate( "15.06.2010",   -10 );
    app.testAddMonate( "15.06.2010",    37 );
    app.testAddMonate( "15.06.2010",   -37 );
    app.testAddMonate( "15.06.2010",  1234 );
    app.testAddMonate( "15.06.2010", -1234 );
    app.testAddMonate( "15.06.2010",  5620 );
    app.testAddMonate( "15.06.2010", -5120 );

}

Answer 6

As demonstrated by many of the complicated, ugly answers presented, Dates and Times can be a nightmare for programmers using any language. My approach is to convert dates and 'delta t' values into Epoch Time (in ms), perform any arithmetic, then convert back to "human time."

// Given a number of days, return a Date object
//   that many days in the future. 
function getFutureDate( days ) {

    // Convert 'days' to milliseconds
    var millies = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * days;

    // Get the current date/time
    var todaysDate = new Date();

    // Get 'todaysDate' as Epoch Time, then add 'days' number of mSecs to it
    var futureMillies = todaysDate.getTime() + millies;

    // Use the Epoch time of the targeted future date to create
    //   a new Date object, and then return it.
    return new Date( futureMillies );
}

// Use case: get a Date that's 60 days from now.
var twoMonthsOut = getFutureDate( 60 );

This was written for a slightly different use case, but you should be able to easily adapt it for related tasks.

EDIT: Full source here!