Incorrect date shown in new Date() in JavaScript

Question

This is what I get in chrome console. I pass "2016-09-05"(YYYY-MM-DD) as the date and it shows me Sept 4,2016 as the date.

Another constructor shows the right date

Passing it comma separated needs some tokenizing + parsing + making month zero indexed which I want to avoid

Answer 1

If you omit the time in the new Date(string) constructor, UTC time is assumed. So the displayed value is actually correct. Use new Date('2016-09-05 00:00') to create the date object in local time.

Answer 2

You could use the Solution from UTC Date Conversion. Which basicall does the following:

console.log(new Date("2014-12-23"));
console.log(convertDateToUTC(new Date("2014-12-23")));

function convertDateToUTC(date) { 
return new Date(date.getUTCFullYear(), date.getUTCMonth(), date.getUTCDate(), date.getUTCHours(), date.getUTCMinutes(), date.getUTCSeconds()); 
}

The output would be like that in the console (for me at least :D)

Tue Dec 23 2014 01:00:00 GMT+0100 (Mitteleuropäische Zeit)
Tue Dec 23 2014 00:00:00 GMT+0100 (Mitteleuropäische Zeit)