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

Unfortunately the best way to extract the month name is from the UTCString representation:

Date.prototype.monthName = function() {
    return this.toUTCString().split(' ')[2]
};

d = new Date();
//=> Thu Mar 06 2014 23:05:21 GMT+0000 (GMT)

d.monthName();
//=> 'Mar'