Why does the month argument range from 0 to 11 in JavaScript's Date constructor?

Question

When initializing a new Date object in JavaScript using the below call, I found out that the month argument counts starting from zero.

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Answer 1

It's an old (probably unfortunate, probably dying) tradition in the programming world, see the old standard (POSIX) localtime C function http://linux.die.net/man/3/localtime