I am trying to add a year to today's date. I am working in a system that does not allow you to use standard
JavaScript.
For instance, to get today's date I have to use:
javascript:now();
I have tried:
javascript:now(+1);
I have never seen this before, but am in need of adding one year to today's date...
Has anyone seen getting current date this way before? And if so, how could I add a year?
You can create a new date object with todays date using the following code:
var d = new Date();
console.log(d);
If you want to create a date a specific time, you can pass the new Date constructor arguments
var d = new Date(2014);
console.log(d)
// => Wed Dec 31 1969 16:00:02 GMT-0800 (PST)
If you want to take todays date and add a year, you can first create a date object, access the relevant properties, and then use them to create a new date object
var d = new Date();
var year = d.getFullYear();
var month = d.getMonth();
var day = d.getDate();
var c = new Date(year + 1, month, day);
console.log(c);
// => Tue Oct 11 2016 00:00:00 GMT-0700 (PDT)
You can read more about the methods on the date object on MDN