JavaScript Date setUTCMonth()

Set the month to 4 (May):

const d = new Date();
d.setUTCMonth(4);

More "Try it Yourself" examples below.

Description

The setUTCMonth() method sets the month (from 0 to 11) of a date object, according to UTC.

Note: January is 0, February is 1, and so on.

UTC (Universal Time Coordinated) is the time set by the World Time Standard.

UTC time is the same as GMT time (Greenwich Mean Time).

setUTCMonth() is an ECMAScript1 (ES1) feature.

ES1 (JavaScript 1997) is fully supported in all browsers:


Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Safari	Opera	IE
Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Date.setUTCMonth( month, day)

Parameter	Description
month	Required. An integer representing the month Expected values are 0-11, but other values are allowed: -1 will result in the last month of the previous year 12 will result in the first month of the next year 13 will result in the second month of the next year
day	Optional. An integer representing the day of month Expected values are 1-31, but other values are allowed: 0 will result in the last hour of the previous month -1 will result in the hour before the last hour of the previous month If the month has 31 days: 32 will result in the first day of the next month If the month has 30 days: 32 will result in the second day of the next month

Parameter

Description

month

Required. An integer representing the month

Expected values are 0-11, but other values are allowed: