JavaScript: Get the month name from a particular date

Last update on August 19 2022 21:50:49 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

JavaScript Datetime: Exercise-4 with Solution

Write a JavaScript function to get the month name from a particular date.

Test Data:
console.log(month_name(new Date("10/11/2009")));
console.log(month_name(new Date("11/13/2014")));
Output :
"October"
"November"

Sample Solution:-

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Get the month name from a particular date</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

JavaScript Code:

var month_name = function(dt){
mlist = [ "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December" ];
  return mlist[dt.getMonth()];
};
console.log(month_name(new Date("10/11/2009")));
console.log(month_name(new Date("11/13/2014")));

Sample Output:

October
November

Flowchart:

Live Demo:

See the Pen JavaScript - Get the month name from a particular date-date-ex- 4 by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.

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