getTime() queer behaviour

[Bildr]

My date ordering using getTime() method sometimes doesn't work well, so I looked for an error and this is what I found:

new Date(2011, 1, 31, 9, 43, 0, 0).getTime() returns 1299141780000
new Date(2011, 2, 1, 14, 41, 0, 0).getTime() returns 1298986860000

This is obviously wrong. 1/2 is day after 31/1, but 31/1 gets a higher time stamp.

PHP function date("r", 1299141780000 * 0.001) returns "Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:43:00 +0100" so here is problem. Time stamp for 31/1 gains 3 days. It looks like a serious JavaScript bug. Did someone solve it?

[mrhoo]

javascript months are zero based- january is 0, not 1

your first date sets february 31, 2011, and March 3 is as close as you can get to the 31st day of february

You are comparing march 3 in the first expression to march 2 in the second, the calculation is correct.

Next year (leap year) february 31 will be march 2...

[Bildr]

Yes, that's it. Thank you.