Easiest way to convert month name to month number in JS ? (Jan = 01)

Question

Just want to covert Jan to 01 (date format)

I can use array() but looking for another way...

Any suggestion?

Answer 1

var monthNames = ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'];

then just call monthNames[1] that will be Feb

So you can always make something like

  monthNumber = "5";
  jQuery('#element').text(monthNames[monthNumber])