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Sep 19, 2022 01:56 PM
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!
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Sep 19, 2022 02:25 PM
Thanks @Vivid-Squid I’m going to look more closely at the JS documentation in the future.

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Sep 19, 2022 04:24 PM
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:
