Is the Javascript date object always one day off?

Question

In my Java Script app I have the date stored in a format like so:

2011-09-24

Now when I try using the above value to create a new Date obje

Answer 1

If you want to get hour 0 of some date in the local time zone, pass the individual date parts to the Date constructor.

new Date(2011,08,24); // month value is 0 based, others are 1 based.