Javascript WTF: The Date object
Friday, January 20, 2012
Almost every time I have to deal with the Date object in Javascript I always hit the same WTF.
The documentation is clear but the API has some strange aspects that personally I don't think reflect the real world and how we naturally handle dates.
For example:
getDay() returns the day of the week (0-6) leaving getDate() to return 1-31. Personally, I would have imagined getDate() to return DMY with getDay() returning 1-31.
getMonth() returns 0-11. Classic computer science with starting the count at 0 while the Gregorian calendar is 1-12. This is also inconsistent with getDate() which starts at 1.
getYear() returns the year (usually 2-3 digits). For example, 2012 is obviously 112. You need to use getFullYear() to return 2012. The logic about how the method came to 112 is found at https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/getYear
JavaScript 1.0 - we love you and you have left an impact in many ways.
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