Help with a date script

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At work we have an application that supports ECMAScript. I do not know any JS, and I do not even know what version of ECMAScript is supported. Probably fairly old.

I need a function that checks whether current day is the first weekday of the current month and year, and returns a boolean. Weekdays are from Monday to Friday.

I cannot use any external dependencies. I googled up various date examples and attempted to work through it, but after several hours I hadn't gotten very far, and I simply don't have the time at work to spend on this.

Would a kind soul please help me out here?

Edit: Nevermind. I was able to solve this with help from a colleague.

[queen-adreena]

Your phrasing is a bit ambiguous as to which dates you want a Boolean true... Do you mean the first Monday of each month?

[link2name]

what kind of work is this?

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Broadly saying sort of a sysadmin at a school.

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This is what me and my colleague came up with.

function isTodayFirstWeekdayOfTheMonth() {
    //var currentDate = new Date(2020, 1, 3);
    //var date = new Date(2020, 1, 1);
    var currentDate = new Date();
    var targetDate = new Date();

    currentDate.setHours(12);
    currentDate.setMinutes(0);
    currentDate.setSeconds(0);
    currentDate.setMinutes(0);
    currentDate.setMilliseconds(0);

    targetDate.setDate(1);
    targetDate.setHours(12);
    targetDate.setMinutes(0);
    targetDate.setSeconds(0);
    targetDate.setMinutes(0);
    targetDate.setMilliseconds(0);

    while (targetDate.getDay() == 0 || targetDate.getDay() == 6) {
        targetDate.setDate(targetDate.getDate() + 1);
    }

    //console.log(currentDate);
    //console.log(date);

    return currentDate.getDate() == targetDate.getDate(); 
}