Can anybody shed some light on getDay() in Javascript please. Here datepicker is textbox where it gets value from Jquery DatePicker Control

var CallbackDateNumber;
// check for the value in Date of callback control
if(("#datepicker")!="")
{
    CallbackDateNumber = new Date($("#datepicker").val()).getDay();
}
else
{
    CallbackDateNumber=new Date().getDay();
}

For January Date its gives 0,1...6- From Sunday to Saturday.

But the same order is not preserved in Month Febraury.

Any reason why this happening?

Can anybody shed some light on getDay() in Javascript please. Here datepicker is textbox where it gets value from Jquery DatePicker Control

var CallbackDateNumber;
// check for the value in Date of callback control
if(("#datepicker")!="")
{
    CallbackDateNumber = new Date($("#datepicker").val()).getDay();
}
else
{
    CallbackDateNumber=new Date().getDay();
}

For January Date its gives 0,1...6- From Sunday to Saturday.

But the same order is not preserved in Month Febraury.

Any reason why this happening?

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Share Improve this question Follow edited Jan 31, 2012 at 15:15 Hari Gillala asked Jan 31, 2012 at 15:03 Hari GillalaHari Gillala 11.9k1818 gold badges7171 silver badges118118 bronze badges 3

• You do realize you are calling two different methods, getDay and getDate, right? – Brian Driscoll Commented Jan 31, 2012 at 15:05
• for 05/02/2012 I get 3, 06/02/2012 I get 6.for 11/02/2012 I get 5. – Hari Gillala Commented Jan 31, 2012 at 15:17
• @Brian: that was typo in my original question – Hari Gillala Commented Jan 31, 2012 at 15:18

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You're using getDate() (= day in the month) instead of getDay() (= day of the week) at the else block. Replace getDate with getDay:

CallbackDateNumber = new Date().getDay();

Your dates need to be in MM/DD/YYYY format. It's parsing 05/02/2012 as May 2, 2012 and 06/02/2012 as June 2, 2012.