// Month in JavaScript is 0-indexed (January is 0, February is 1, etc),
// but by using 0 as the day it will give us the last day of the prior
// month. So passing in 1 as the month number will return the last day
// of January, not February
function daysInMonth (month, year) {
return new Date(year, month, 0).getDate();
}
// July
daysInMonth(7,2009); // 31
// February
daysInMonth(2,2009); // 28
daysInMonth(2,2008); // 29
// pass in any date as parameter anyDateInMonth
function daysInMonth(anyDateInMonth) {
return new Date(anyDateInMonth.getFullYear(),
anyDateInMonth.getMonth()+1,
0).getDate();}