JavaScript Date setDate()
Description
setDate() sets the day of the month of a date.
Example 2
Set the day of the month to the last day of the previous month:
const d = new Date();
d.setDate(0);
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Example 3
Set the day of the month in a specified date:
const d = new Date("July 21, 1983 01:15:00");
d.setDate(15);
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Browser Support
setDate() is an ECMAScript1 (ES1) feature.
ES1 (JavaScript 1997) is fully supported in all browsers:
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Safari | Opera | IE |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Syntax
Date.setDate(day)
Parameters
| day | An integer representing the day (1 to 31).
Higher and lower values are handeled with date maths:
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Return Value
| A number. Number of milliseconds between the date and January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC. |
