Find all the days in a month with Date object?

Question

is there a way to have all the days of a month or of a year? I am looking for this in order to disable some specific days in a datepicker, i would have a page in the back-office to select these days to disable.

So i would need to show all the days in a month, and add a "activate or deactive" button below each day. Is there a way to find these days with the Date object? I found this link for example : Displaying all the days of a month but i don't really understand it, plus it is Java, i am trying to find a solution in javascript.

Thank you for your help

Answer 1

To get a list of all days in a month, you can start with a Date on the first day of a month, increase the day until the month changes.

/**
 * @param {int} The month number, 0 based
 * @param {int} The year, not zero based, required to account for leap years
 * @return {Date[]} List with date objects for each day of the month
 */
function getDaysInMonth(month, year) {
  var date = new Date(year, month, 1);
  var days = [];
  while (date.getMonth() === month) {
    days.push(new Date(date));
    date.setDate(date.getDate() + 1);
  }
  return days;
}

UTC Version

In response to some comments, I've created a version that uses UTC methods in case you want to call UTC methods instead of the standard methods that return the localized time zone.

I suspect this is the culprit of the comments saying this didn't work. You typically want to make sure you call getUTCMonth/Day/Hours methods if you instantiated it with Date.UTC, and vice-versa, unless you are trying to convert time zones and show differences.

function getDaysInMonthUTC(month, year) {
  var date = new Date(Date.UTC(year, month, 1));
  var days = [];
  while (date.getUTCMonth() === month) {
    days.push(new Date(date));
    date.setUTCDate(date.getUTCDate() + 1);
  }
  return days;
}

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Unit Tests

/**
 * @param {int} The month number, 0 based
 * @param {int} The year, not zero based, required to account for leap years
 * @return {Date[]} List with date objects for each day of the month
 */
function getDaysInMonthUTC(month, year) {
  var date = new Date(Date.UTC(year, month, 1));
  var days = [];
  while (date.getUTCMonth() === month) {
    days.push(new Date(date));
    date.setUTCDate(date.getUTCDate() + 1);
  }
  return days;
}

function getDaysInMonth(month, year) {
  var date = new Date(year, month, 1);
  var days = [];
  while (date.getMonth() === month) {
    days.push(new Date(date));
    date.setDate(date.getDate() + 1);
  }
  return days;
}

const days2020 = [31, 29, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31];
const days2021 = [31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31];

describe("getDaysInMonthUTC", function() {
  it("gets day counts for leap years", function() {
    const actual = days2020.map(
      (day, index) => getDaysInMonthUTC(index, 2020).length
    );
    expect(actual).toEqual(days2020);
  });

  it("gets day counts for non-leap years", function() {
    const actual = days2021.map(
      (day, index) => getDaysInMonthUTC(index, 2021).length
    );
    expect(actual).toEqual(days2021);
  });
});


describe("getDaysInMonth", function() {
  it("gets day counts for leap years", function() {
    const actual = days2020.map(
      (day, index) => getDaysInMonth(index, 2020).length
    );
    expect(actual).toEqual(days2020);
  });

  it("gets day counts for non-leap years", function() {
    const actual = days2021.map(
      (day, index) => getDaysInMonth(index, 2021).length
    );
    expect(actual).toEqual(days2021);
  });
});

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  env.execute();
}());

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