Parse Month name from date variable

I have a date held in a public variable called "DOB".  I would like to make a new variable called "Month" that is just the month name from the date in the DOB variable.

 

var dob = '12/25/2017';

var dob_month = dob.getMonth();

 

Something like that... anyone have any ideas?

Hello Jeff,

 

Try below code 

 

var monthNames=['Jan','Feb','March','April','May','Jun','July','Aug','Sep','Oct','Nov','Dec'];

var dob = '12/25/2017';

var dob_month =monthNames[(new Date(dob)).getMonth()];

 

Thanks,

Sunny Singla 

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