jquery shows wrong date

Question

I want to show the current date in my invoice. To do this, im using the following method:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js"></script>

Datum:
<p id="date"></p>

<script>
    var today = new Date();
    var day = today.getDay();
    var month = today.getMonth();
    var year = today.getYear();
    document.getElementById('date').innerHTML = day + "." + month + "." + year;

</script>

Please, and some more information about your problem, such as the console error, bad behaviors etc. — Ricardo Rocha, Oct 31 '16 at 15:15
That isn't jQuery. Its javascript. And `.getDay()` will return a number between 0 and 6. You want `.getDate()` — Turnip, Oct 31 '16 at 15:16
Be sure, the `getDay` method returns day of week. So, for now it returns 1(Monday). And the `getMonth` returns month from 0 to 11. — Sergey, Oct 31 '16 at 15:16
It doesn't throw any error, but the date is not correct. It shows: 1.9.116, whereas it should be 31.10.2016 — Simagdo, Oct 31 '16 at 15:17
Furthermore, you probably want today.getFullYear() not getYear(). The former returns the full year since 0 AD and the latter is deprecated. — SyntaxTerror, Oct 31 '16 at 15:17
Take a look at this answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1531093/how-to-get-current-date-in-javascript — cnikas, Oct 31 '16 at 15:21
Since January starts with 0 you need to make update in your month section as: today.getMonth() + 1 — anil shrestha, Jun 04 '20 at 04:42

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 31 '16 at 15:18

You should check the manual:

getDay - method returns the day of the week for the specified date according to local time, where 0 represents Sunday
getMonth - An integer number, between 0 and 11, representing the month in the given date according to local time. 0 corresponds to January, 1 to February, and so on.
getYear - A number representing the year of the given date, according to local time, minus 1900

What you are actually looking for is:

<p id="date"></p>
<script>
    var today = new Date();
    var day = today.getDate();
    var month = today.getMonth() + 1;
    var year = today.getFullYear();
    document.getElementById('date').innerHTML = day + "." + month + "." + year;

</script>

</html>

And it has nothing to do wth jQuery :) it's pure javascript.

jquery shows wrong date

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