Convert string to date and add 5 days to it

Question

I have a string like so

\"2014-10-29\"

and Now I need to convert it to a date and add 5 days to it.

I have this code that adds 5 days t

Answer 1

Pass the string in to the Date constructor:

var newDate = new Date("2014-10-29");
newDate.setDate(newDate.getDate() + 5);

var yyyy = newDate.getFullYear().toString();
var mm = (newDate.getMonth() + 1).toString();
var dd = newDate.getDate().toString();

var mmChars = mm.split('');
var ddChars = dd.split('');

var newClosingDate = yyyy + '-' + (mmChars[1] ? mm : "0" + mmChars[0]) + '-' + (ddChars[1] ? dd : "0" + ddChars[0]);

console.log(newDate);