how can I convert day of year to date in javascript?

Question

I want to take a day of the year and convert to an actual date using the Date object. Example: day 257 of 1929, how can I go about doing this?

Answer 1

The shortest possible way is to create a new date object with the given year, January as month and your day of the year as date:

const date = new Date(2017, 0, 365);

console.log(date.toLocaleDateString());

As for setDate the correct month gets calculated if the given date is larger than the month's length.