It depends on your criteria for "easy". Here's a simple function to do as required, it's 5 lines of working code that can be reduced to 4, but will lose a bit of clarity if that's done:
function lastDayInMonth(dayName, month, year) {
// Day index map - modify to suit whatever you want to pass to the function
var dayNums = {Sunday: 0, Monday:1, Tuesday:2, Wednesday:3,
Thursday:4, Friday:5, Saturday:6};
// Create a date object for last day of month
var d = new Date(year, month, 0);
// Get day index, make Sunday 7 (could be combined with following line)
var day = d.getDay() || 7;
// Adjust to required day
d.setDate(d.getDate() - (7 - dayNums[dayName] + day) % 7);
return d;
}
You can change the map to whatever, just determine what you want to pass to the function (day name, abbreviation, index, whatever) that can be mapped to an ECMAScript day number.
Edit
So in the case of always wanting to show the last Wednesday of the month or next month if it's passed:
function showLastWed() {
var now = new Date();
var lastWedOfThisMonth = lastDayInMonth('Wednesday', now.getMonth()+1, now.getFullYear());
if (now.getDate() > lastWedOfThisMonth().getDate()) {
return lastDayInMonth('Wednesday', now.getMonth()+2, now.getFullYear());
} else {
return lastWedOfThisMonth;
}
}
Note that the function expects the calendar month number (Jan = 1, Feb = 2, etc.) whereas the getMonth method returns the ECMAScript month index (Jan = 0, Feb = 1, etc.) hence the +1
and +2
to get the calendar month number.