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JavaScript dates look simple until they’re not. Here’s the second way to create a date: pass the components manually. Year, month, day, hour, minute—each as a separate number. And anything you skip defaults to zero. So you can write just the year, month, and day like this……but there’s a catch coming.

Learn how to use the JavaScript Date object, format dates correctly, handle timezones, and avoid common bugs with the Date and Time API. This 2025 guide covers parsing, formatting, new date formats, and everything developers need to work reliably with date and time in JavaScript. If you’ve ever seen a date shift by one day, hours changing unexpectedly, or confusing “Invalid Date” errors… this tutorial will finally make it all make sense.

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