Incrementing a date in JavaScript

Question

I need to increment a date value by one day in JavaScript.

For example, I have a date value 2010-09-11 and I need to store the date of the next day in a JavaScript v

Answer 1

Getting the next 5 days:

var date = new Date(),
d = date.getDate(),
m = date.getMonth(),
y = date.getFullYear();


for(i=0; i < 5; i++){
var curdate = new Date(y, m, d+i)
console.log(curdate)
}

Answer 2

You first need to parse your string before following the other people's suggestion:

var dateString = "2010-09-11";
var myDate = new Date(dateString);

//add a day to the date
myDate.setDate(myDate.getDate() + 1);

If you want it back in the same format again you will have to do that "manually":

var y = myDate.getFullYear(),
    m = myDate.getMonth() + 1, // january is month 0 in javascript
    d = myDate.getDate();
var pad = function(val) { var str = val.toString(); return (str.length < 2) ? "0" + str : str};
dateString = [y, pad(m), pad(d)].join("-");

But I suggest getting Date.js as mentioned in other replies, that will help you alot.

Answer 3

var myDate = new Date();

//add a day to the date
myDate.setDate(myDate.getDate() + 1);

Answer 4

The easiest way is to convert to milliseconds and add 1000*60*60*24 milliseconds e.g.:

var tomorrow = new Date(today.getTime()+1000*60*60*24);

Answer 5

Not entirelly sure if it is a BUG(Tested Firefox 32.0.3 and Chrome 38.0.2125.101), but the following code will fail on Brazil (-3 GMT):

Date.prototype.shiftDays = function(days){    
  days = parseInt(days, 10);
  this.setDate(this.getDate() + days);
  return this;
}

$date = new Date(2014, 9, 16,0,1,1);
$date.shiftDays(1);
console.log($date+"");
$date.shiftDays(1);
console.log($date+"");
$date.shiftDays(1);
console.log($date+"");
$date.shiftDays(1);
console.log($date+"");

Result:

Fri Oct 17 2014 00:01:01 GMT-0300
Sat Oct 18 2014 00:01:01 GMT-0300
Sat Oct 18 2014 23:01:01 GMT-0300
Sun Oct 19 2014 23:01:01 GMT-0200

Adding one Hour to the date, will make it work perfectly (but does not solve the problem).

$date = new Date(2014, 9, 16,0,1,1);

Result:

Fri Oct 17 2014 01:01:01 GMT-0300
Sat Oct 18 2014 01:01:01 GMT-0300
Sun Oct 19 2014 01:01:01 GMT-0200
Mon Oct 20 2014 01:01:01 GMT-0200

Answer 6

Results in a string representation of tomorrow's date. Use new Date() to get today's date, adding one day using Date.getDate() and Date.setDate(), and converting the Date object to a string.

  const tomorrow = () => {
      let t = new Date();
      t.setDate(t.getDate() + 1);
      return `${t.getFullYear()}-${String(t.getMonth() + 1).padStart(2, '0')}-${String(
        t.getDate()
      ).padStart(2, '0')}`;
    };
    tomorrow();