JavaScript Date

Date

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Constructor

// Now
new Date()

// ms since epoch
new Date(1393678859000)

// Date format
new Date("March 1, 2014 13:00:59")

// ISO date format
new Date("2014-03-01T13:00:59")

new Date(2014, 2, 1, 13, 0, 59, 0)

Constructor

| new Date( | 2014, | 2, | 1, | 13, | 0, | 59, | 0) | | Date | Year | Month | Day | Hour | Min | Sec | Milli | {: .-css-breakdown}

Months are zero-indexed (eg, January is 0).

Conversion

Method	Result
d.toString()	"Sat Mar 01 2014 13:00:59 GMT+0000 (GMT)"
d.toTimeString()	"13:00:59 GMT+0000 (GMT)"
d.toUTCString()	"Sat, 01 Mar 2014 13:00:59 GMT"
---	---
d.toDateString()	"Sat Mar 01 2014"
d.toISOString()	"2014-03-01T13:00:59.000Z"
d.toLocaleString()	"3/1/2014, 1:00:59 PM"
d.toLocaleTimeString()	"1:00:59 PM"
---	---
d.getTime()	1393678859000

Accessing

Getters

Method	Result
.getDate()	1..31
.getDay()	0..6 (sun..sat)
.getFullYear()	2014
.getMonth()	0..11
---	---
.getHours()
.getMinutes()
.getSeconds()
.getMilliseconds()
---	---
.getTime()	ms since epoch
.getTimezoneOffset()

UTC versions are also available (eg, .getUTCDate(), .getUTCDay(), etc).

Setters

Method	Result
.setDate (val)
.setDay (val)
.setFullYear (val)
.setMonth (val)
---	---
.setHours (val)
.setMinutes (val)
.setSeconds (val)
.setMilliseconds (val)
---	---
.setTime (val)
.setTimezoneOffset (val)

See the getters list.