For these examples, date is set using
var now=new Date()
when local time was Friday, July 06, 2007 5:54:14 PM
on a computer set to (US) Mountain Standard Time. If you have JavaScript available in your browser, you can see a live example here.- getMonth()
- a number representing the month, 0 for January, 1 for February, ... You can use this as a key to an array of month names or add one to the number to get a human readable month
EXAMPLE:now.getMonth()
RESULT: 6 - getDate()
- the day of the month as a number from 1 to 31
EXAMPLE:now.getDate()
RESULT: 6 - getDay()
- the day of the week as a number from 0 to 6 where 0 represents Sunday and 6 represents Saturday
EXAMPLE:now.getDay()
RESULT: 5 - getFullYear()
- returns the four digit year
EXAMPLE:now.getFullYear()
RESULT: 2007 - getYear()
- returns the two digit year OR the four digit year minus 1900, you should probably avoid using this in favor of getFullYear()
EXAMPLE:now.getYear()
RESULT: 07 OR 107 OR even 7 - getHours()
- hour of the day on a 24 hour clock (0 to 23)
EXAMPLE:now.getHours()
RESULT: 17 - getMinutes()
- minutes after the hour (0 to 59)
EXAMPLE:now.getMinutes()
RESULT: 54 - getSeconds()
- seconds of the minute (0 to 59)
EXAMPLE:now.getSeconds()
RESULT: 14 - getMilliseconds()
- millionths of a second (0 to 999)
EXAMPLE:now.getMilliseconds()
RESULT: 937 - getTimezoneOffset()
- Offset from UTC time in minutes
EXAMPLE:now.getTimezoneOffset()
RESULT: 420 - getTime()
- current time in native JavaScript format, Milliseconds since January 1st, 1970. This is often called UNIX time, since the UNIX operating system popularized this time format.
EXAMPLE:now.getTime()
RESULT: 1183769654937