Find the current financial Quarter first date using moment.js

Question

I have read many posts here but couldn't get what I wanted. I am currently new to Javascript and don't know how to get the first Date of the current quarter in MM-DD-YYYY format.

Thanks in advance!

Solution 1

With moment 1.7.0+ it is just

moment().startOf('quarter').format('MM-DD-YYYY');

Solution 2

Getting the date in JavaScript, using moment.js to format:

var qtrDate = (function () {
    var d = new Date(),
        m = d.getMonth() - d.getMonth() % 3;
    return moment(new Date(d.getFullYear(), m, 1)).format('MM-DD-YYYY');
}());

or

function getQuarterFirstDay (d) {
    var m = d.getMonth() - d.getMonth() % 3;
    return moment(new Date(d.getFullYear(), m, 1)).format('MM-DD-YYYY');
}
var d = getQuarterFirstDay(new Date());

Solution 3

A pure javascript solution:

var currentMonth=(new Date()).getMonth()
var yyyy = (new Date()).getFullYear()
var start = (Math.floor(currentMonth/3)*3)+1;
end= start+3;
startDate=new Date(start+'-01-'+ yyyy);
endDate= end>12?new Date('01-01-'+ (yyyy+1)):new Date(end+'-01-'+ (yyyy));
endDate=new Date((endDate.getTime())-1)
    
console.log('startDate =', startDate,'endDate =', endDate);