How to add weeks to date using javascript?

Javascript definitely isn't my strongest point. I've been attempting this for a couple of hours now and seem to be getting stuck with date formatting somewhere.

I have a form where a user selected a date (dd/mm/yyyy) and then this date will be taken and 2 weeks will be added to it and then date will be copied to another form field.

My latest attempt below isn't even adding a date yet just copying the selected date in one form field to another, if I select '03/02/2012', it outputs 'Fri Mar 02 2012 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (GMT Standard Time)', so its outputting in American format as well as the full date. How to I get it to out put in the same format and add 2 weeks?

function LicenceToOccupy(acceptCompletionDate)
{
    var date1 = new Date(acceptCompletionDate);
    document.frmAccept.acceptLicence.value = date1;

}

Solution 1:

You can do this :

let numWeeks = 2;
let now = new Date();
now.setDate(now.getDate() + numWeeks * 7);
alert(now);

You can see the fiddle here.

According to the documentation in MDN

The setDate() method sets the day of the Date object relative to the beginning of the currently set month.

Solution 2:

This might not answer the question per se, but one can find a solution with these formulas.

6.048e+8 = 1 week in milliseconds

Date.now() = Now in milliseconds

Date.now() + 6.048e+8 = 1 week from today

Date.now() + (6.048e+8 * 2) = 2 weeks from today

new Date( Date.now() + (6.048e+8 * 2) ) = Date Object for 2 weeks from today

Solution 3:

You're assigning date1 to be a Date object which represents the string you pass it. What you're seeing in the acceptLicense value is the toString() representation of the date object (try alert(date1.toString()) to see this).

To output as you want, you'll have to use string concatenation and the various Date methods.

var formattedDate = date1.getDate() + '/' + (date1.getMonth() + 1) + '/' + date1.getFullYear();

In terms of adding 2 weeks, you should add 14 days to the current date;

date1.setDate(date.getDate() + 14);

... this will automatically handle the month increase etc.

In the end, you'll end up with;

var date1 = new Date(acceptCompletionDate);
date1.setDate(date1.getDate() + 14);
document.frmAccept.acceptLicence.value = date1.getDate() + '/' + (date1.getMonth() + 1) + '/' + date1.getFullYear();

N.B Months in JavaScript are 0-indexed (Jan = 0, Dec = 11), hence the +1 on the month.

Edit: To address your comment, you should construct date as follows instead, as the Date argument is supposed to be "A string representing an RFC2822 or ISO 8601 date." (see here).

var segments = acceptCompletionDate.split("/");
var date1 = new Date(segments[2], segments[1], segments[0]);