The getUTCMonth() method returns the month portion of the Date object converted to universal time and expressed as an integer from 0 (January) to 11 (December).
<html> <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- function getMonthString(num) { var month; //Create a local variable to hold the string switch(num) { case 0: month="January"; break; case 1: month="February"; break; case 2: month="March"; break; case 3: month="April"; break; case 4: month="May"; break; case 5: month="June"; break; case 6: month="July"; break; case 7: month="August"; break; case 8: month="September"; break; case 9: month="October"; break; case 10: month="November"; break; case 11: month="December"; break; default: month="Invalid month"; } return month; } theDate = new Date(); document.write("The UTC month is ",theMonthString(theDate.getUTCMonth())); --> </script> </html>