Name
Date.getMonth( ) Method — the month of the year
Availability
Flash 5
Synopsis
date.getMonth( )
Returns
An integer from 0
(January) to 11 (December), not 1 to 12, representing the month of
the year of date
.
Usage
Be careful not to assume that 1 is January! The return value of
getMonth( )
starts at 0, not 1.
Example
Here we convert the number returned by getMonth(
)
to a human-readable abbreviation:
var months = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sept", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"]; myDateObj = new Date( ); trace ("The month is " + months[myDateObj.getMonth( )]);
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