I am confused about working with javascript dates

[kingpoop]

Hi, I don't understand why the month
portion of the code below produces a
month of 2 instead of 3. Can anyone
help me understand why this is happening?
Thank you for your help
kp

<script language=&quot;javascript&quot;>
var now = new Date();
var day = now.getDate();
var month = now.getMonth();
var year = now.getFullYear();
alert('now = ' + now);
alert('day = ' + day);
alert('month = ' + month);
alert('year = ' + year);
</script>

Produces:
day = 10
month = 2 why is this 2 instead of 3 ?
year = 2002

 

[kevinclark]

This method returns an integer (0 for January thru 11 for December) that represents the month for the specified date.

Its like using an array where the integer represents the position (starting at position 0) with in the array.

Example MyArray(&quot;JAN&quot;, &quot;FEB&quot;, &quot;MAR&quot;, .......)

MyArray(0) would return Jan
MyArray(1) would return Feb
etc...