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

this also works ..

function to2(x) { return ("0"+x).slice(-2); }
function formatDate(d){
    return d.getFullYear()+"-"+to2(d.getMonth()+1)+"-"+to2(d.getDate());
    }
document.write(formatDate(new Date(2016,0,257)));

prints "2016-09-13"

which is correct as 2016 is a leaap year. (see calendars here: http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/julian_calendar.html )