Javascript date parsing bug - fails for dates in June (??)

Question

I have some javascript which parses an ISO-8601 date. For some reason, it is failing for dates in June. But dates in July and May work fine, which doesn\'t make sense to m

Answer 1

It's because today is July 31. Grant explained the problem. Here's what I believe is a simpler solution. Initialize your date on Jan 1.

var date = new Date(2009,0,1,0,0,0);