momentJS date string add 5 days

Question

i have a start date string \"20.03.2014\" and i want to add 5 days to this with moment.js but i don\'t get the new date \"25.03.2014\" in the alert window.

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Answer 1

To get an actual working example going that returns what one would expect:

var startdate = "20.03.2014";
var new_date = moment(startdate, "DD.MM.YYYY");
var thing = new_date.add(5, 'days').format('DD/MM/YYYY');
window.console.log(thing)