jquery - javascript create date from year, month, day

Question

I am trying to create a new date in javascript.

I have year, month and day. Following this tutorial, syntax for creating new date should be:

new Date(year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds)

and that is exactly what I am doing:

var d = new Date(2016, 12, 17, 0, 0, 0, 0);

This should be december 17th 2016, but in my console output I see:

Tue Jan 17 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0100 (Central Europe Standard Time)

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

January is month 0. December is month 11. So this should work:

var d = new Date(2016, 11, 17, 0, 0, 0, 0);

Also, you can just simply do:

var d = new Date(2016, 11, 17);