Use Moment to get month of Date object

You can use moment.month() it will return or set the value.

moment.month() is zero based, so it will return 0-11 when doing a get and it expects a value of 0-11 when setting passing a value in.

var d = moment(scope.date);
d.month(); // 1
d.format('ddd MMM DD YYYY'); // 'Mon Feb 01 2016'

As moment.month() returns zero based month number you can use moment.format() to get the actual month number starting from 1 like so

moment.format(scope.date, 'M');