getFullYear returns year before on first day of year

Question

I\'m trying to pull just the year out of a date, but for some reason on the first day of the year its returning the year previous.

new Date(\'2012-01-01\').g         


        

Answer 1

new Date(dateString) will return what time it was in Greewich England at that time. You could do this if you want the year you seek:

new Date('2012-01-01T00:00:00').getFullYear();

Maybe you like this:

function dateFromString(dateString){
  return new Date(dateString+'T00:00:00');
}
console.log(dateFromString('2012-01-01').getFullYear());