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

I have a partial solution that I came up with. It uses a regular expression to extract the month and day name. But as I look through the Region and Language options (Windows) I realize that different cultures have different format order... maybe a better regular expression pattern could be useful.

function testDateInfo() {
        var months = new Array();
        var days = new Array();
        var workingDate = new Date();
        workingDate.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0);
        workingDate.setDate(1);
        var RE = new RegExp("([a-z]+)","ig");
        //-- get day names 0-6
        for (var i = 0; i < 7; i++) {

            var day = workingDate.getDay();
            //-- will eventually be in order
            if (days[day] == undefined)
                days[day] = workingDate.toLocaleDateString().match(RE)[0];
            workingDate.setDate(workingDate.getDate() + 1);
        }
        //--get month names 0-11
        for (var i = 0; i < 12; i++) {
            workingDate.setMonth(i);
            months.push(workingDate.toLocaleDateString().match(RE)[1]);
        }
        alert(days.join(",") + " \n\r " + months.join(","));
    }