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Hi all! I’m working on an automation script which needs to get the current date so that it can be formatted for a URL. However, calling the .getMonth() function on a date object returns an incorrect month. I can of course correct for this by adding 1 to each month but would prefer not to.


I’ve created a new script which creates a date and logs the resulting month to demonstrate my issue:


The code:


The resulting console logs:


Has anyone encountered this issue before? Thanks!

Hi @Sam_Richter,

I believe that getMonth() is zero based value, so January is 0.

Hi @Sam_Richter,

I believe that getMonth() is zero based value, so January is 0.


Thanks @Vivid-Squid I’m going to look more closely at the JS documentation in the future.


This is not an Airtable behaviour; it is how javascript dates work. This is a flaw inherited from Java way back before you were born. :winking_face:


stackoverflow.com/questions/344380/…

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