Get the first and last date of the previous month in JQuery

Question

I have this script,

 var today = new Date();
 var dd = today.getDate();
 var ffffd = today.getDate()-1;
 var ffffdd = today.getDate()-2;

 var mm = today.getMonth()+         


        

Answer 1

Try this: get today's date and set date to 1 which will get first of the current month. Then set hour to -1 which will shift it to previous months last day. Then set day to 1 to get first day of previous month.

var today = new Date();
var dd = today.getDate();

today.setDate(1); // going to 1st of the month
today.setHours(-1); // going to last hour before this date even started.
var lastDay = today.toLocaleDateString('en-GB', {  
                              year: 'numeric',
                              month: 'numeric',
                              day: 'numeric'
                          }).split(' ').join('-');

alert("last day of previous month " + lastDay);

today.setDate(1); // going to 1st of the previous month

var firstDay = today.toLocaleDateString('en-GB', {  
                              year: 'numeric',
                              month: 'numeric',
                              day: 'numeric'
                          }).split(' ').join('-');

alert("first day of previous month " + firstDay);

JSFiddle Demo