Hello. Today is:
And the time is now (according to your computer):
As promised, there is little new to learn to get the months. There is a function getMonth() which which corresponds with getDay(), and as with the days, we need to make an array writing the months in the way we want them displaid.
| var myMonths=new Array( "January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August", "September","October","November","December"); |
And as with the days, we can display the month as follows:
| var myMonths=new Array( "January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August", "September","October","November","December"); today=new Date() thisMonth=today.getMonth() document.write(myMonths[thisMonth]) |
Because this month is then the above code will result in !
However, we might not want this month, and prefer one, say, 3 months on - which is
For example, our next appointment will be in 3 months time, which is .
The code which achieves the above effects is shown below.
| var myDate=new Date(); myMonthNum=myDate.getMonth() myMonthNum=myMonthNum+3 myDate.setMonth(myMonthNum) myMonth=myDate.getMonth() document.write(myMonths[myMonth]) |
The new thing in the above is setMonth(). We can use this to change the month in any date. We use the numbers 0 to 11 to change the month to another one. In the above code, we extracted the date from the present and added 3 to it. Then we used this new number to set the date to our new month.
| Enter a number of months in the box and click the button to find the new date - that many months ahead! |
For example, if we enter 78 months, we get:
which is 78 months from today.