Aug 14, 2019 · Updated: Jan 15, 2020 · by Tim Kamanin
const getDaysInMonth = date =>
new Date(date.getFullYear(), date.getMonth() + 1, 0).getDate();
getDaysInMonth(new Date(2019, 1)); // 28 days in February 2019
getDaysInMonth(new Date(2019, 3)); // 30 days in April 2019
There are two things you need to understand about dates in JS to get how this function is working:
Date
objects are null-indexed, which means 0 is January, 1 is February ..., and 11 is December;Date
and provide zero as the third argument new Date(2019, 2, 0)
, we literally say "the last day of the previous month.".getDaysInMonth(new Date(2019, 1, 0)); // January 31st, 2019
getDaysInMonth(new Date(2019, 2, 0)); // February 28th, 2019
getDaysInMonth(new Date(2019, 0, 0)); // December 31, 2018
So in plain English, in getDaysInMonth
we take a date, increment a month, so we get the next month and at the same time, set a day for the next month to "0" which sets the date to the last day of the previous month, which, in turn, is our initial month. Then we use getDate()
function that returns us the day as an integer.
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