JavaScript Objects: Dates

Method

What it Does

Date()

Used to retrieve today's date and time

getDate()

Used to retrieve the day of the month from a Date object (from 1-31)

getDay()

Used to retrieve the day of the week from a Date object (from 0-6)

getMonth()

Used to retrieve the month from a Date object (from 0-11)

getFullYear()

Used to retrieve the year, as a four-digit number, from a Date object

getYear()

Used to retrieve the year, as a two-digit or a four-digit number, from a Date object.

getHours()

Used to retrieve the hour of a Date object (from 0-23)

getMinutes()

Used to retrieve the minutes of a Date object (from 0-59)

getSeconds()

Used to retrieve the seconds of a Date object (from 0-59)

getMilliseconds()

Used to retrieve the milliseconds of a Date object (from 0-999)

getTime()

Used to retrieve the number of milliseconds since midnight Jan 1, 1970

getTimezoneOffset()

Gets the difference in minutes between local time and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

getUTCDate()

Used to retrieve the day of the month from a Date object according to universal time (from 1-31)

getUTCDay()

Used to retrieve the day of the week from a Date object according to universal time (from 0-6)

getUTCMonth()

Used to retrieve the month from a Date object according to universal time (from 0-11)

getUTCFullYear()

Used to retrieve the four-digit year from a Date object according to universal time

getUTCHours()

Used to retrieve the hour of a Date object according to universal time (from 0-23)

getUTCMinutes()

Used to retrieve the minutes of a Date object according to universal time (from 0-59)

getUTCSeconds()

Used to retrieve the seconds of a Date object according to universal time (from 0-59)

getUTCMilliseconds()

Used to retrieve the milliseconds of a Date object according to universal time (from 0-999)

parse()

Uses a date string to return the number of milliseconds from midnight of January 1, 1970

setDate()

Used to set the day of the month in a Date object (from 1-31)

setMonth()

Used to set the month in a Date object (from 0-11)

setFullYear()

Used to set the year in a Date object (four digits)

setYear()

Used to set the year in the Date object (two or four digits)

setHours()

Used to set the hour in a Date object (from 0-23)

setMinutes()

Used to set the minutes in a Date object (from 0-59)

setSeconds()

Used to set the seconds in a Date object (from 0-59)

setMilliseconds()

Used to set the milliseconds in a Date object (from 0-999)

setTime()

Used to calculate a date and time by adding/subtracting a certain number of milliseconds to or from midnight January 1, 1970

setUTCDate()

Used to set the day of the month in a Date object according to universal time (from 1-31)

setUTCMonth()

Used to set the month in a Date object according to universal time (from 0-11)

setUTCFullYear()

Used to set the year in a Date object according to universal time (a four digit value)

setUTCHours()

Used to set the hour in a Date object according to universal time (from 0-23)

setUTCMinutes()

Used to set the minutes in a Date object according to universal time (from 0-59)

setUTCSeconds()

Used to set the seconds in a Date object according to universal time (from 0-59)

setUTCMilliseconds()

Used to set the milliseconds in a Date object according to universal time (from 0-999)

toSource()

Returns the source code of an object

toString()

Used to convert a Date object to a string

toGMTString()

Used to convert a Date object, according to Greenwich time, to a string

toUTCString()

Used to convert a Date object, according to universal time, to a string

toLocaleString()

Used to convert a Date object, according to local time, to a string

UTC()

Starts with a date and returns the number of milliseconds from midnight of January 1, 1970 according to universal time

valueOf()

Used to return the primitive value of a Date object