[javascript] Add one day to date in javascript

The Date constructor that takes a single number is expecting the number of milliseconds since December 31st, 1969.

Date.getDate() returns the day index for the current date object. In your example, the day is 30. The final expression is 31, therefore it's returning 31 milliseconds after December 31st, 1969.

A simple solution using your existing approach is to use Date.getTime() instead. Then, add a days worth of milliseconds instead of 1.

For example,

var dateString = 'Mon Jun 30 2014 00:00:00';

var startDate = new Date(dateString);

// seconds * minutes * hours * milliseconds = 1 day 
var day = 60 * 60 * 24 * 1000;

var endDate = new Date(startDate.getTime() + day);

JSFiddle

Please note that this solution doesn't handle edge cases related to daylight savings, leap years, etc. It is always a more cost effective approach to instead, use a mature open source library like moment.js to handle everything.