How to add leading "0" to month/day of date string?

date, datepicker, javascript, jquery

Solution

You can also avoid testing if n < 10 by using :

("0" + (yourDate.getMonth() + 1)).slice(-2)

Problem

so i wrote up a method that takes a number and subtracts the amount of months from the current date. I am trying to figure out how can i add a '0' in front of the months that are less that 10. Also, how can I add a '0' in front on the days that are less than ten as well. Currently, when it returns the object (2012-6-9). It returns 6 and 9 with no '0' in front of it, can someone show me how to do it? Here is my code ``` lastNmonths = function(n) { var date = new Date(); if (n <= 0) return [date.getFullYear(), date.getMonth() + 1 , date.getDate()].join('-'); var years = Math.floor(n/12); var months = n % 12; if (years > 0) date.setFullYear(date.getFullYear() - years); if (months > 0) { if (months >= date.getMonth()) { date.setFullYear(date.getFullYear()-1 ); months = 12 - months; date.setMonth(date.getMonth() + months ); } else { date.setMonth(date.getMonth() - months); } } } return [date.getFullYear(), date.getMonth() + 1, date.getDate()].join('-'); }; ```

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