Parsing to a date object

[mattps]

Hello,

I am trying to pass a variable to a date object and then increment the date object. The format of the variable is dd/mm/yyyy. I have tried using Date.parse but am getting incorrect results:

The date I am trying parse is:

15/10/2012

var myDatetemp=Date.parse(document.getElementById("loggeddate").value);
var myDate=new Date(myDatetemp);

I then increment the date by, say 1 day:

myDate.setDate(myDate.getDate()+1);document.getElementById('deadline').value=myDate.getDate() + "/" + (myDate.getMonth()+1)+ "/" + myDate.getYear();break;

What I get returned is:

11/3/2013

[devnull69]

The problem is that a string date will generally be interpreted as mm/dd/yyyy. And the 10th day of the 15th month 2012 will be "translated" into the 10th day of the 3rd month 2013. And +1 will be the 11th day then.

Try this (make sure that day and month are always two digits!)

var mydatestring = document.getElementById("loggeddate").value;
var myyear = parseInt(mydatestring.substring(6), 10);
var mymonth = parseInt(mydatestring.substring(3, 5), 10) - 1;
var myday = parseInt(mydatestring.substring(0, 2), 10);
var myDate = new Date(myyear, mymonth, myday);
myDate.setDate(myDate.getDate()+1);
document.getElementById('deadline').value=myDate.getDate() + "/" + (myDate.getMonth()+1)+ "/" + myDate.getYear();

[shyagrawal]

Try using this:

var Date = new Date();
var DaysToAdd = 6;
someDate.setDate(Date.getDate() + DaysToAdd);

Formatting Date to dd/mm/yyyy format:
var dd = Date.getDate();
var mm = Date.getMonth() + 1;
var yyyy = Date.getFullYear();

var NewDate = dd + '/'+ mm + '/'+ yyyy;

Hope this helps.

[mattps]

Thank you both for your help.