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JavaScript Date method: setUTCMonth()

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The setUTCMonth() method (when applied to a JavaScript date) sets the date variable’s UTC month (and optionally its day)

 

It has the following syntax with the following parameters:

 

date.setUTCMonth(month, day)

 

Parameter

Required / Optional

Description

month

Required

Integer representing month of year. Typically, will be in range 0 – 11. However, -1 will result last month of previous year, 12 will result in first month of next year etc.

day

Optional

Integer representing day of month. Typically, will be in range 1 – 31. However, 0 will result in last day of previous month, -1 the day before that etc., and e.g. 32 for a 30-day month will be second day of following month

 


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