How to determine one year from now in Javascript

Question

I\'m trying to get one year from now\'s date, and it\'s not working.

JS:

var now = new Date();

var oneYr = new Date();
oneYr.setYear(now.getYear() +         


        

Answer 1

You should use getFullYear() instead of getYear(). getYear() returns the actual year minus 1900 (and so is fairly useless).

Thus a date marking exactly one year from the present moment would be:

var oneYearFromNow = new Date();
oneYearFromNow.setFullYear(oneYearFromNow.getFullYear() + 1);

Note that the date will be adjusted if you do that on February 29.

Similarly, you can get a date that's a month from now via getMonth() and setMonth(). You don't have to worry about "rolling over" from the current year into the next year if you do it in December; the date will be adjusted automatically. Same goes for day-of-month via getDate() and setDate().