new Date(2014,1,1) converts to 1th february with momentJS [duplicate]

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javascript is creating date wrong month (4 answers)

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Why does this declaration result in a momentJS object with Date 1th February 2014 ???

var startDate = moment(new Date(2014, 1, 1));

Answer 1

Because the second argument is 0-11 in the Date object. (1 being Feb). Its not a MomentJS issue.

Change to new Date(2014, 0, 1)

Answer 2

because the month is 0 based. you would do

var startDate = moment(new Date(2014, 0, 1));

for jan.