Question

We have a .NET web service which returns JSON, including a date in string format as follows: 2012-04-30T00:00:00+12:00.

In javascript, I want to exclude dates where the month is not the current month. Hence, with the above date, the month is 04 (April) and the current month is May (in New Zealand anyway). So, I want to ignore this record, e.g, in pseudocode:

if(vMonth == CurrentMonth){
     dothis();
}

How can I do this?

Answer 1

EDIT: See Rob G’s answer below for the solution that works in all browsers.

var dateOne = new Date("2012-04-30T00:00:00+12:00");​​​
var dateTwo = new Date();

if(dateOne.getMonth() == dateTwo.getMonth()) {
    alert("equal");
}

Here’s the jsfiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/Mq5Tf/

More info on the date object:
MSDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date
ES5: http://es5.github.com/#x15.9.2