.getMonth()
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Called from an instance of the Date
class, will return the month of the year.
Syntax
myDate.getMonth();
The return value of getMonth()
will only be an integer number between 0
and 11
, meaning the month of the year:
0
represents January1
represents February2
represents March- …
10
represents November11
represents December
Example
To determine if it is June or not:
const today = new Date('June 25, 2021 13:41:30');if (today.getMonth() === 5) {console.log('Time flies, it is now June.');} else {console.log('It is not 10 in the morning now.');}// Output: Time flies, it is now June.
Codebyte Example
The example below defines a new Date
object dateTimeNow
, an array months
containing the names of the calendar months, and stores the result of the getMonth()
method in a new variable month
. Finally, the current date\time, the current month, and the months remaining in the current year are logged to the console.
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