Question

I’m am trying to format a date in Javascript but the date command is returning the wrong date unless I use toUTCString() which returns the correct date, I’ve tried different ways of giving the date to the Date() function and both get and getUTC functions to get the date. I’ve also tried on different browsers (Chrome, Safari, FireFox) and what makes in even more confusing is if I do it in Chrome’s inspector is works perfectly. And I missing something obvious?

var d = new Date(1324141200000);

// return "Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:00:00 GMT" - Correct!
alert(d.toUTCString());
// returns "6-11-2011" - Wrong! 
alert(d.getUTCDay() +'-'+ d.getUTCMonth() +'-'+ d.getUTCFullYear()); 

Answer 1

The “getUTCDay()” function returns the day of the week. The months are numbered from zero. Saturday is the sixth day of the week (in JavaScript land at least), and 11 is the 12th month counting from zero.

Thus, all is well.

The day of the month can be retrieved with “d.getUTCDate()”.