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Endorse your pain/angry.
The biggest fault is just the weird language and the pseudo-APIs behind it. That would be acceptable in a kids learning world, but we'll pay all this JavaScript spreading in the (near) future...and will be a boomerang!
.Net and C# forever...
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So Marc, tell me, when's the last time you got laid?
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: So Marc, tell me, when's the last time you got laid?
Recently.  No need to be more explicit, haha.
Marc
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Hahaha. As serendipity has it, I just last night bought JavaScript: The Good Parts. I wonder what Crockford's going to make of The Date Thing.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Not that I use it, but I thought arrays in VB were 1-based, and people hate it for that. Well, that and many other reasons. Are you advocating we should follow the VB model? 
month[0] being January makes sense to me. That said, an enum defining month names starting at 1 also make sense to me.
I see no way of ever reconciliating these sort of idiosyncrasies, unfortunately.
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That would be somewhat OK, if it were consistent, in which case the first day of the month would be day 0, and the first year of a century would be 0 + the century. But it is not consistent and, by convention, months and days are already numbers starting with 1. Why confuse things just because you are a programmer who likes to put the months in an array starting with a zero offset? In that case, that offset should be calculated and used internally, not by forcing everyone else to add 1 to the month everywhere it is used. I agree with the poster that some common standards were made by people exhibiting ID-10-T errors.
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I hear you, but ultimately, a month number is not an array index. The dumb thing is using them as such...'cuz then, somebody at some point has no choice but to add or subtract 1 because we're dealing with different "currencies". 
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I agree. That is why I also agree with the original poster that a JavaScript month should not be starting with zero. I was just trying to say that, if one is being aggravatingly dumb, at least be consistent about it. I wonder just who it was who made the decision to make months start with zero, and what he is doing now. Is he sitting in an easy chair with his tea and crumpets, musing about his wonderful history, or is he hiding in a safehouse in fear from those of us who didn't like his work.
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He's probably fixing broken VB code.
At least that's the punishment I'd come up with.
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Wasn't Javascript born out of C/C++? Then, that is why lists and arrays begin at 0 and not 1.
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Y...yes...?
I don't think I was questioning this.
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The method is deprecated, but try mydate.getYear() sometime  
TTFN - Kent
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My favorite Javascript date "feature" is where Jan 32, 2015 rather than throwing an error will just assume you meant Feb 1, 2015.
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Perhaps you don't like zero-base array. Perhaps Pascal/Delphi suits you better? It is the only language with 1 base array I know off.
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Isn't BASIC 1-index too?
And I'm quite happy with 0-based arrays. However, a month number is not an index. It is a human-readable abstraction starting with "1". Therefore, when I ask for the month in Javascript, I do NOT expect to get 0 for January.
By Javascript's logic, the first day of the month should be 0!!!!
Marc
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It's nice when the boss's boss takes you out for breakfast. One of the benefits of being the first two people at the office.
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better if it is the boss's wife !! (OH WAIT!!!  )
I'd rather be phishing!
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The boss and the boss's boss can't be female? They weren't. 
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You don't like the wife of a female boss's boss, do you? 
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One step towards becoming your boss' peer!
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There ain't no such thing as a free breakfast!
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Breakfast is lots of coffee and cigarette's. In the dark, without sound, without other people.
I don't think my boss would appreciate it.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Good chance to say anything against the Boss 
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As the saying goes, "the early developer gets the bacon.".
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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