How to add months to a date in JavaScript
By Saruque Ahamed MollickHello JavaScript Developer. In this JavaScript tutorial, I am gonna show you how to add months to date in JavaScript. I will give you an easy example so that it becomes easier for you guys to understand.
If you wish you can read these similar tutorials:
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Those above tutorials are closely related to this one. Almost the same process and the same type of method is used.
Add Months To Date in JavaScript Date Object
Here I have to use two methods:
- getMonth()
- setMonth()
Now let’s code it:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title Goes Here</title>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
var mydate = new Date();
mydate.setMonth(mydate.getMonth()+2);
document.write(mydate);
</script>
</body>
</html>Output:
Thu Jan 10 2019 12:23:15 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)
In the above example, we added 2 months to the current date object.
var mydate = new Date();
Firstly, This stores the current date in the mydate variable.
mydate.setMonth(mydate.getMonth()+2);
Then, Here we have added two months to mydate.
Special note: If you wish you can use your custom date. In order to do that just add your own date in the Date() as a parameter.
If you want to use system date just don’t pass any parameter to it.
Finally, I hope this tutorial was helpful to you. Feel free to comment below if any doubt arises.
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