JavaScript function to add X months to a date

Question

I’m looking for the easiest, cleanest way to add X months to a JavaScript date.

I’d rather not handle the rolling over of the year or have to write my own function.<

Answer 1

This works for all edge cases. The weird calculation for newMonth handles negative months input. If the new month does not match the expected month (like 31 Feb), it will set the day of month to 0, which translates to "end of previous month":

function dateAddCalendarMonths(date, months) {
    monthSum = date.getMonth() + months;
    newMonth = (12 + (monthSum % 12)) % 12;
    newYear = date.getFullYear() + Math.floor(monthSum / 12);
    newDate = new Date(newYear, newMonth, date.getDate());
    return (newDate.getMonth() != newMonth)
        ? new Date(newDate.setDate(0))
        : newDate;
}