DOM Related Javascript Basic Object Set 2 Date Object

Date Object

The Date object is used to work with dates and times. Date objects are created with new Date(). There are four ways of instantiating a date:

var d = new Date();
var d = new Date(milliseconds);
var d = new Date(dateString);
var d = new Date(year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds);
Date Object Properties


constructor : Returns the function that created the Date object s prototype
prototype : Allows you to add properties and methods to an object


Date Object Methods

getDate() Returns the day of the month (from 1-31)
getDay() Returns the day of the week (from 0-6)
getFullYear() Returns the year (four digits)
getHours() Returns the hour (from 0-23)
getMilliseconds() Returns the milliseconds (from 0-999)
getMinutes() Returns the minutes (from 0-59)
getMonth() Returns the month (from 0-11)
getSeconds() Returns the seconds (from 0-59)
getTime() Returns the number of milliseconds since midnight Jan 1, 1970
getYear() Deprecated. Use the getFullYear() method instead
parse() Parses a date string and returns the number of milliseconds since midnight of January 1, 1970
setDate() Sets the day of the month (from 1-31)
setFullYear() Sets the year (four digits)
setHours() Sets the hour (from 0-23)
setMilliseconds() Sets the milliseconds (from 0-999)
setMinutes() Set the minutes (from 0-59)
setMonth() Sets the month (from 0-11)
setSeconds() Sets the seconds (from 0-59)
setTime() Sets a date and time by adding or subtracting a specified number of milliseconds to/from midnight January 1, 1970
toDateString() Converts the date portion of a Date object into a readable string
toGMTString() Deprecated. Use the toUTCString() method instead
toLocaleDateString() Returns the date portion of a Date object as a string, using locale conventions
toLocaleTimeString() Returns the time portion of a Date object as a string, using locale conventions
toLocaleString() Converts a Date object to a string, using locale conventions
toString() Converts a Date object to a string
toTimeString() Converts the time portion of a Date object to a string
toUTCString() Converts a Date object to a string, according to universal time
valueOf() Returns the primitive value of a Date object