Utility for determining the month of the date

Question

Hi All,
I am currently using the Date object to get the date in numbers and then by using a switch case, am manually printing the month in words.
Is there any utility/method which gives us the month text like August, September, etc., instead of 8 and 9?
Please give me some pointers on the same.
Thanks,
Anitha

Answer 1

Hey!
Yeah, there is an easy way to achieve this!
You can create prototype for Date function like this:
Date.prototype.dayName = function() {
    var myDay = ['Sunday','Monday','Tuesday','Wednesday','Thursday','Friday','Saturday'];
    return myDay[this.getDay()];
Date.prototype.monthName = function() {
    var myMonth = ['January','February','March','April','May','June','July','August','September','October','November','December'];
    return myMonth[this.getMonth()];
And you are using it like this:
var myToday = new Date;
alert((myToday.dayName() + ', ' + myToday.getDate() + ' ' + myToday.monthName() + ', ' + myToday.getFullYear()));
Hope it helps!
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