Get month name of last month using moment

Question

I use the following code to get startDate and endDate of the last months.

// Previous month var startDateMonthMinusOne = moment().subtract(1, "month").startOf("month").unix(); var endDateMonthMinusOne   = moment().subtract(1, "month").endOf("month").unix();  // Previous month - 1  var startDateMonthMinusOne = moment().subtract(2, "month").startOf("month").unix(); var endDateMonthMinusOne   = moment().subtract(2, "month").endOf("month").unix(); 

How can i do to get also the month name ? (January, February, ...)

Answer 1

Instead of unix() use the format() function to format the datetime using the MMMM format specifier for the month name.

var monthMinusOneName =  moment().subtract(1, "month").startOf("month").format('MMMM'); 

See the chapter Display / Format in the documentation

Answer 2

You can simply use format('MMMM').

Here a working example:

var currMonthName  = moment().format('MMMM');  var prevMonthName  = moment().subtract(1, "month").format('MMMM');    console.log(currMonthName);  console.log(prevMonthName);

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