Name

Date.setMonth( ) Method — assign the month of the year

Availability

Flash 5

Synopsis

date.setMonth(month)

Arguments

month

An integer from 0 (January) to 11 (December), not from 1 to 12, representing the new month of the year of date. Values above 11 or below are carried over to the year of date .

Returns

An integer representing the number of milliseconds between the new date and midnight, January 1, 1970.

Usage

Be careful not to assume that 1 is January! Months start at 0, not 1.

See Also

Date.getMonth( )

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