Date.getDay() javascript returns wrong day

Question

Hi I\'m new in javascript I have such javascript code

alert(DATE.value);
var d = new Date(DATE.value);
var year = d.getFullYear();
var month = d.getMonth();
         


        

Answer 1

function formatDate(date, callback)
{
var weekday = new Array("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday",     "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday");
var day = weekday[date.getDay()];
console.log('day',day);
var d = date.getDate();
var hours = date.getHours();
ampmSwitch = (hours > 12) ? "PM" : "AM";
if (hours > 12) {
    hours -= 12;

}
else if (hours === 0) {
    hours = 12;
}
var m = date.getMinutes();
var months = ["January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"];
var month = months[date.getMonth()];
var year = date.getFullYear();
newdate = day + ', ' + month + ' ' + d + ',' + year + ' at ' + hours + ":" + m + " " + ampmSwitch
callback(newdate)
}

and call with this code

date="Fri Aug 26 2016 18:06:01 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)"
formatDate(date,function(result){
   console.log('Date=',result);
 });