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Date Object

Methods

MethodDescription

Date

new Date ([year, month [,date [,hours [,minutes [,seconds [,ms]]]]]])
Create a new Date object. When no arguments are passed the Date object is assigned the current date and time. When one Number argument is passed, the Date object is assigned a time value based on the number of milliseconds since midnight January 1, 1970. When one String argument is passed, the Date object is assigned the date and time represented by the argument. Otherwise year and month must be supplied and the other arguments can be ommited in which case a value of 1 (for date) or 0 (for the rest) is used.

getDate

getDate()
Get day of the month of this date.

getDay

getDay()
Get week day of this date (Sunday==0).

getFullYear

getFullYear()
Get year of this date.

getHours

getHours()
Get hour part of this date.

getMilliseconds

getMilliseconds()
Get milliseconds part of this date.

getMinutes

getMinutes()
Get minutes part of this date.

getMonth

getMonth()
Get month of this date (January==0).

getSeconds

getSeconds()
Get seconds part of this date.

getTime

getTime()
Return the number of milliseconds between this date and midnight January 1, 1970

getTimezoneOffset

getTimezoneOffset()
Get current time zone offset in minutes.

getUTCDate

getUTCDate()
Get day of the month of this date in UTC.

getUTCDay

getUTCDay()
Get week day of this date in UTC (Sunday==0)

getUTCFullYear

getUTCFullYear()
Get year of this date in UTC.

getUTCHours

getUTCHours()
Get hour part of this date in UTC.

getUTCMilliseconds

getUTCMilliseconds()
Get milliseconds part of this date in UTC.

getUTCMinutes

getUTCMinutes()
Get minutes part of this date in UTC.

getUTCMonth

getUTCMonth()
Get month of this date in UTC (January==0).

getUTCSeconds

getUTCSeconds()
Get seconds part of this date in UTC.

parse

parse(argument)
Parse specified string as date and return the number of milliseconds between that date and midnight January 1, 1970

setDate

setDate(argument)
Set day of month.

setFullYear

setFullYear(argument)
Set year.

setHours

setHours(argument)
Set hour part of this date/time.

setMilliseconds

setMilliseconds(argument)
Set milliseconds part of this date/time.

setMinutes

setMinutes(argument)
Set minutes part of this date/time.

setMonth

setMonth(argument)
Set month.

setSeconds

setSeconds(argument)
Set seconds part of this date/time.

setTime

setTime(argument)
Set date and time value as milliseconds since midnight January 1, 1970

setUTCDate

setUTCDate(argument)
Set day of month in UTC.

setUTCFullYear

setUTCFullYear(argument)
Set year in UTC.

setUTCHours

setUTCHours(argument)
Set hour part of this date/time in UTC.

setUTCMilliseconds

setUTCMilliseconds(argument)
Set milliseconds part of this date/time in UTC.

setUTCMinutes

setUTCMinutes(argument)
Set minutes part of this date/time in UTC.

setUTCMonth

setUTCMonth(argument)
Set month in UTC.

setUTCSeconds

setUTCSeconds(argument)
Set seconds part of this date/time in UTC.

toDateString

toDateString()
Convert date to a human-readable string.

toString

toString()
Returns string representation of this object.

toTimeString

toTimeString()
Convert time to a human-readable string.

toUTCString

toUTCString()
Convert date and time to a UTC string.

valueOf

valueOf()
Return the number of milliseconds between this date and midnight January 1, 1970

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