Get month name from Date

Question

How can I generate the name of the month (e.g: Oct/October) from this date object in JavaScript?

var objDate = new Date(\"10/11/2009\");

Answer 1

Some common easy process from date object can be done by this.

var monthNames = ["January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June",
  "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"
];
var monthShortNames = ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun",
  "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"
];

function dateFormat1(d) {
  var t = new Date(d);
  return t.getDate() + ' ' + monthNames[t.getMonth()] + ', ' + t.getFullYear();
}

function dateFormat2(d) {
  var t = new Date(d);
  return t.getDate() + ' ' + monthShortNames[t.getMonth()] + ', ' + t.getFullYear();
}

console.log(dateFormat1(new Date()))
console.log(dateFormat2(new Date()))

Or you can make date prototype like

Date.prototype.getMonthName = function() {
  var monthNames = ["January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June",
    "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"
  ];
  return monthNames[this.getMonth()];
}


Date.prototype.getFormatDate = function() {
  var monthNames = ["January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June",
    "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"
  ];
  return this.getDate() + ' ' + monthNames[this.getMonth()] + ', ' + this.getFullYear();
}


console.log(new Date().getMonthName())
console.log(new Date().getFormatDate())

Ex:

var dateFormat3 = new Date().getMonthName(); # March

var dateFormat4 = new Date().getFormatDate(); # 16 March, 2017