Add Years to a Date in JavaScript

Add Year(s) to a Date in JavaScript #

To add years to a date:

1. Use the getFullYear() method to get the year of the specific date.
2. Use the setFullYear() method to set the year for the date.
3. The setFullYear method takes a number representing the year as a parameter and sets the value for the date.

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const date = new Date();
console.log(date); // 👉️ Fri Jan 21 2022

// ✅ Add 1 year to a Date (with Mutation)
date.setFullYear(date.getFullYear() + 1);

console.log(date); // 👉️ Sat Jan 21 2023

We created a Date object using the Date() constructor.

The example uses the current date, but you can pass a date as a parameter to the constructor.

We used the getFullYear method to get the year of the date and added 1 to the result.

The setFullYear method takes an integer that represents the year as a parameter and sets the value on the date.

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const date = new Date();
console.log(date); // 👉️ Fri Jan 21 2022

// ✅ Add years to date (Without mutation)
const dateCopy = new Date(date.getTime());

dateCopy.setFullYear(date.getFullYear() + 1);

console.log(dateCopy); // 👉️ Sat Jan 21 2023

console.log(date); // 👉️ Fri Jan 21 2022

The getTime method returns the number of milliseconds elapsed between 1st of January, 1970 00:00:00 and the given date.

You might see the setFullYear method get called with 3 parameters. The parameters the method takes are:

1. year - An integer representing the year, for example 2022.
2. month (optional) - an integer between 0 and 11 that represents the months January through December.
3. date (optional) - an integer between 1 and 31 representing the day of the month.

The month and date parameters are optional, and when not specified, the values returned from the getMonth() and getDate() methods are used, in other words the month and date remain the same.