Set date 10 days in the future and format to dd/mm/yyyy (e.g. 21/08/2010)

Question

I would really appreciate some help creating some JavaScript that will eventually be used in Selenium that automatically sets a date 10 days ahead from the current date and displays in the following format dd/mm/yyyy.

I currently have the script below, but I'm not getting anywhere with it :

var myDate=new Date(); myDate.now.format(myDate.setDate(myDate.getDate()+5),("dd/mm/yyyy"); 

Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

Here is an example of getting the future date...

var targetDate = new Date(); targetDate.setDate(targetDate.getDate() + 10);  // So you can see the date we have created alert(targetDate);  var dd = targetDate.getDate(); var mm = targetDate.getMonth() + 1; // 0 is January, so we must add 1 var yyyy = targetDate.getFullYear();  var dateString = dd + "/" + mm + "/" + yyyy;  // So you can see the output alert(dateString); 

There are some more graceful ways to format dates, examples can be found at the following destinations:

http://www.west-wind.com/Weblog/posts/282495.aspx

http://www.svendtofte.com/javascript/javascript-date-string-formatting/

Answer 2

Try:

new Date(Date.now() + 1000 /*sec*/ * 60 /*min*/ * 60 /*hour*/ * 24 /*day*/ * 10)