How to get now Year using Javascript

Question

var date = '04/04';<br>
alert(new Date(date));<br>

//now year 2013<br>
//result Wed Apr 04 <b>2001</b>

I want

//result Wed Apr 04 <b>2013</b>

Answer 1

You can get the current date by new Date(); So current year can be found by:

var currentDate = new Date();
  //this would return 2013

So following code would do the work for getting correct date:

var currentDate = new Date();
var currentYear = currentDate.getFullYear();

var date = "04/04";              //the date entered
var comp = date.split('/');
var m = parseInt(comp[0], 10);   //this would give you the entered month
var d = parseInt(comp[1], 10);   //this would give you the entered date

var correctDate = new Date(currentYear, m - 1, d);
correctDate.toDateString();   //this line will return the date

Hope it helps.

Answer 2

Set the parts individually with the setX() functions.

Answer 3

var nowYear=new Date().getFullYear(); //current year

var date = '04/04/'+nowYear.toString();

alert( new Date(date));

http://jsfiddle.net/LhXH4/

is that really returning Wed Apr 04 2001? instead of invalid date? without year in string , how did it get parsed?

Answer 4

var date = '04/04';
date = new Date(date);
date = new Date(2013, date.getMonth(), date.getDate());
alert(date);

Answer 5

With static year it will be:

var date = '04/04';
alert(new Date('2013/'+date));

where date format is yyyy/MM/dd