Get First and Last Day of the current Year in JavaScript

Get First and Last Day of the current Year in JavaScript #

Use the Date() constructor to get the first and last day of the current year. The Date() constructor takes the year, a zero-based value for the month and the day as parameters and returns a Date object.

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const currentYear = new Date().getFullYear();
console.log(currentYear); // 👉️2022

const firstDay = new Date(currentYear, 0, 1);
console.log(firstDay); // 👉️ Sat Jan 01 2022

const lastDay = new Date(currentYear, 11, 31);
console.log(lastDay); // 👉️ Sat Dec 31 2022

We passed the following 3 parameters to the Date() constructor:

1. The year
2. The month
3. The day

We used the Date.getFullYear method to get the current year.

To get the first day of the current year, we passed 0 (January) for the month and 1 for the day of the month to the Date() constructor.

To get the last day of the current year, we passed 11 (December) for the month and 31 for the day of the month.

You can use this approach to get the first and last day for any year. All you have to do is change the first parameter in the call to the Date() constructor.

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const year = 2030;

const firstDay = new Date(year, 0, 1);

console.log(firstDay); // 👉️ Tue Jan 01 2030

const lastDay = new Date(year, 11, 31);
console.log(lastDay); // 👉️ Tue Dec 31 2030

If you want to make your code more readable, you can store the values for the month in variables with appropriate naming.

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const currentYear = new Date().getFullYear();

const january = 0;
const firstDay = new Date(currentYear, january, 1);
console.log(firstDay); // 👉️ Sat Jan 01 2022

const december = 11;
const lastDay = new Date(currentYear, december, 31);
console.log(lastDay); // 👉️ Sat Dec 31 2022

Creating separated variables that store the zero-based value for the month makes our code a bit more readable.