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Zero-based month numbering
Why is January month 0 in JS date object ? For instance, I would expect this snippet to create a date oject for the 8th of Februray 2013. Instead, it's March. All other fields areintuitive. Years are natural as well as day of month and time.
test_date = New Date(2013, 2, 8);
Is there any rational behind this ?
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getMonth() – You will use this method to get the month as a number between 0-11, with each number representing the months from January to December. For example, 2 will be the index for March since it's zero-based indexing (meaning it starts from 0 ).
Date objects are created with the new Date() constructor.
Return value Calling the Date() function (without the new keyword) returns a string representation of the current date and time, exactly as new Date().toString() does.
Because then you can have:
var monthnames = ["Jan","Feb","Mar"....];
And access the array by:
monthnames[myDate.getMonths()]
Similarly for weekdays, where Sunday is 0.
However, years, and days are just numeric values, not indices to some greater meaning.
Side-note: Hours, minutes and seconds are zero-based in "human time" too.
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