I'm working on a NodeJS Projects and I get wrong Date values. And I don't get what I am doing wrong.

 var d = new Date(results[1].timestamp);
      console.log(results[1].timestamp); // 2016-05-10T13:29:47   <- this is right (stored at my DataBase)
      console.log(d.getDate());          //10
      console.log(d.getFullYear());      //2016
      console.log(d.getMonth());         //4
      console.log(d.getDay());           //2
      console.log(d.getHours());         //15
      console.log(d.getMinutes());       //29
      console.log(d.getSeconds());       //47

So Month, Day and Hours are wrong. I see these results in google chrome at my Mac

Thanks for helping

I'm working on a NodeJS Projects and I get wrong Date values. And I don't get what I am doing wrong.

 var d = new Date(results[1].timestamp);
      console.log(results[1].timestamp); // 2016-05-10T13:29:47   <- this is right (stored at my DataBase)
      console.log(d.getDate());          //10
      console.log(d.getFullYear());      //2016
      console.log(d.getMonth());         //4
      console.log(d.getDay());           //2
      console.log(d.getHours());         //15
      console.log(d.getMinutes());       //29
      console.log(d.getSeconds());       //47

So Month, Day and Hours are wrong. I see these results in google chrome at my Mac

Thanks for helping

• javascript
• node.js
• date

• 2 Did you read the documentation for getDay and getMonth ? I don't think you did... – Denys Séguret Commented May 11, 2016 at 11:27

3 Answers 3

A few errors here:

1. getMonth returns a 0 based month. That is May is 04.

2. getDay returns the day of the week. I guess you want getDate

3. the date is parsed as UTC and getHour is according to the locale. So the hour might be different from what you want (but right here it seems to be "exact", as is it's the same value than inputted).

A tip for your next problems: Have a look at some documentation. For example the MDN.

The getDay() method returns the day of the week (from 0 to 6) for the specified date.

The getMonth() method returns the month (from 0 to 11) for the specified date, according to local time.

The getHours() method returns the hour (from 0 to 23) of the specified date and time.

getDay() function returns the Day of the date i.e. from sunday to saturday(0 to 6)

getMonth() function returns month frome January to December (0 to 1) so here you need to add 1 to correctly get the value

and I am afraid you misinterpreted getHours() result, because if I check for the mentioned date it gives me 13