My jQuery function takes in the current month. I would like to display the next and previous months depending on the buttons clicked.

My question is, is there a default Date() function I can call to know the next and previous months of a current month ?

$(document).ready(function () {

    var current_date = $('#cal-current-month').html();

    //current_date will have September 2013

    $('#previous-month').onclick(function(){

        // Do something to get the previous month

    });

    $('#next-month').onclick(function(){

        // Do something to get the previous month

    });

});

I can write some code and get the next and previous months, but I was wondering if there is any already defined functions for this purpose?

SOLVED

var current_date = $('.now').html();

var now = new Date(current_date);



var months = new Array( January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December);



$('#previous-month').click(function(){

    var past = now.setMonth(now.getMonth() -1);

    $('.now').html(months[now.getMonth()]+' '+now.getFullYear());

});



$('#next-month').click(function(){

    var future = now.setMonth(now.getMonth() +1);

    $('.now').html(months[now.getMonth()]+' '+now.getFullYear());

});