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Get First Day and last day of week javascript

var curr = new Date; // get current date
var first = curr.getDate() - curr.getDay(); // First day is the day of the month - the day of the week
var last = first + 6; // last day is the first day + 6

var firstday = new Date(curr.setDate(first)).toUTCString();
var lastday = new Date(curr.setDate(last)).toUTCString();

firstday
"Sun, 06 Mar 2011 12:25:40 GMT"
lastday
"Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:25:40 GMT"

javascript first and last day of the month

var date = new Date(), y = date.getFullYear(), m = date.getMonth();
var firstDay = new Date(y, m, 1);
var lastDay = new Date(y, m + 1, 0);

js get first and last day of previous month

var d = new Date();
d.setDate(0); //sets d to the last day of the previous month
d.setDate(1); //sets d the the first day of that month
d.setHours(0,0,0,0); //sets d time to midnight

//d now equals the first day of the month before today