DATE OBJECT METHOD

Date Object Methods

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Method    Description
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getYear()    Year minus 1900
getMonth()    Month of Year (Jan = 0)
getDate()    Date within the month
getDay()    Day of week (sun = 0)
getHours()    Hour of 24-hr day
getMinutes()    Minutes of hour
getSeconds()    Seconds within minute
getTime()    Milliseconds since 1/1/70
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setYear()    Year minus 1900
setMonth()    Month of Year (Jan = 0)
setDate()    Date within the month
setDay()    Day of week (sun = 0)
setHours()    Hour of 24-hr day
setMinutes()    Minutes of hour
setSeconds()    Seconds within minute
setTime()    Milliseconds since 1/1/70
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getTimezoneOffset()      Minutes offset from GMT
toGMTString()    String in universal format
getLocalString()    String in system's format
parse("string")    String to milliseconds
UTC(value)    Date from GMT


The 5 ways to create a Date object for a specific date and time are shown below:

new Date("Month dd, yyyy hh:mm:ss")
new Date("Month dd, yyyy") new
Date(yy,mm,dd,hh,mm,ss) new
Date(yy,mm,dd) new Date(milliseconds)

Here is a example of creating a Date object for each of the 5 ways:


var myDateTime = new Date("May 1, 1999 12:00:00")
var myDateTime = new Date("May 1, 1999")
var myDateTime = new Date(99,04,01,12,00,00)
var myDateTime = new Date(99,04,01)
var myDateTime = new Date(100)

It is important to realize that all time in JavaScript is referenced to midnight, January 1, 1970, Greenwich Mean Time.