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How do you use a date object in JavaScript?

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Date

The Date object provides a sophisticated set of methods for manipulating dates and times.

• It reads client machine date and time so if the client‟s date or time is incorrect, your script will reflect this fact.
• Days of week and months of the year are enumerated beginning with zero.
0 – Sunday, 1 – Monday, and so on
0 – January, 1 – February, and so on
• Days of the month begin with One.

Creating Date Object

Date objects are created with the new Date() constructor. Date Objects created by programmers are static. They do not contain a ticking clock.

Syntax:-

Creating Date Object

  • new Date( ) – new Date() creates a new date object with the current date and time.

Creating Date Object

  • new Date(milliseconds) – It creates a new date object as January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 Universal Time (UTC).

Ex: –

Creating Date Object

  • new Date(year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds) It creates an object with the date specified by the integer values for the year, month, day, hours, minutes, second, milliseconds. You can omit some of the arguments.

Month and Week Day start with 0
0 – Sunday
0 – January
Month Day starts with 1
1 – 1

Creating Date Object

No. of argumentsDescription (in order)
7year, month, day, hour, minute, second, millisecond
6year, month, day, hour, minute, second
5year, month, day, hour, minute
4year, month, day, hour
3year, month, day
2year and month
1Millisecond

Creating Date Object

  • new Date(dateString) – new Date(dateString) creates a new date object from a date string.

Ex: –
var tarikh = new Date(“May 12, 2018 10:16:05″)

Date TypeFormatExample
ISO DateYYYY-MM-DD“2018-06-21” (The International Standard)
Short DateMM/DD/YYYY“06/21/2018″
Long DateMMM DD YYYY“June 21 2018 or “21 June 2018″

ISO Dates

ISO 8601 is the international standard for the representation of dates and times.

DescriptionFormatExample
Year and MonthYear and Month2018-06
Only YearYYYY2018
Date and TimeYYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM: SSZ2018-06-21T12:00:00Z
Date and TimeYYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+HH: MM
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS-HH: MM		2018-06-21T12:00:00+06:30
2018-06-21T12:00:00-06:30

Date and Time are separated with a capital T.
UTC time is defined with the capital letter Z.
If you want to modify the time relative to UTC, remove the Z and add +HH: MM or -HH: MM instead.

Short Date

  • Short dates are written in an “MM/DD/YYYY” format.
  • In some browsers, months or days with no leading zeroes may produce an error.
  • The behavior of “YYYY/MM/DD” is undefined. Some browsers will try to guess the format. Some will return NaN.
  • The behavior of “DD-MM-YYYY” is also undefined. Some browsers will try to guess the format. Some will return NaN.

Long Date

Long dates are most often written in a “MMM DD YYYY” format.
Month and day can be in any order.
A month can be written in full (January), or abbreviated (Jan).
If you write “June 21, 2018” Commas are ignored and Names are case insensitive.

Set Date Methods

  • setDate() Set the day as a number (1-31)
  • setFullYear() Set the year (optionally month and day)
  • setHours() Set the hour (0-23)
  • setMilliseconds() Set the milliseconds (0-999)
  • setMinutes() Set the minutes (0-59)
  • setMonth() Set the month (0-11)
  • setSeconds() Set the seconds (0-59)
  • setTime() Set the time (milliseconds since January 1, 1970)

Get Date Methods

  • getFullYear() Get the year as a four digit number (yyyy)
  • getMonth() Get the month as a number (0-11)
  • getDate() Get the day as a number (1-31)
  • getHours() Get the hour (0-23)
  • getMinutes() Get the minute (0-59)
  • getSeconds() Get the second (0-59)
  • getMilliseconds() Get the millisecond (0-999)
  • getTime() Get the time (milliseconds since January 1, 1970)
  • getDay() Get the weekday as a number (0-6)

Converting Dates to String

If you want to create a string in a standard format, Date provides three methods: –

  • toString( )
  • toUTCString( )
  • toGMTString( )

toUTCString ( ) and toGMTString ( ) format the string according
to Internet (GMT) standards, whereas toString ( ) creates the
string according to Local Time.

Date 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
  • 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, and a specified date
  • getTimezoneOffset() Returns the time difference between UTC time and local time, in minutes
  • getUTCDate() Returns the day of the month, according to universal time (from 1-31)
  • getUTCDay() Returns the day of the week, according to universal time (from 0-6)
  • getUTCFullYear() Returns the year, according to universal time
  • getUTCHours() Returns the hour, according to universal time (from 0-23)
  • getUTCMilliseconds() Returns the milliseconds, according to universal time (from 0-999)
  • getUTCMinutes() Returns the minutes, according to universal time (from 0-59)
  • getUTCMonth() Returns the month, according to universal time (from 0-11)
  • getUTCSeconds() Returns the seconds, according to universal time (from 0-59)
  • now() Returns the number of milliseconds since midnight Jan 1, 1970
  • parse() Parses a date string and returns the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970
  • setDate() Sets the day of the month of a date object
  • setFullYear() Sets the year of a date object
  • setHours() Sets the hour of a date object
  • setMilliseconds() Sets the milliseconds of a date object
  • setMinutes() Set the minutes of a date object
  • setMonth() Sets the month of a date object
  • setSeconds() Sets the seconds of a date objec
  • setTime() Sets a date to a specified number of milliseconds after/before January 1, 1970
  • setUTCDate() Sets the day of the month of a date object, according to universal time
  • setUTCFullYear() Sets the year of a date object, according to universal time
  • setUTCHours() Sets the hour of a date object, according to universal time
  • setUTCMilliseconds() Sets the milliseconds of a date object, according to universal time
  • setUTCMinutes() Set the minutes of a date object, according to universal time
  • setUTCMonth() Sets the month of a date object, according to universal time
  • setUTCSeconds() Set the seconds of a date object, according to universal time
  • toDateString() Converts the date portion of a Date object into a readable string
  • toISOString() Returns the date as a string, using the ISO standard
  • toJSON() Returns the date as a string, formatted as a JSON date
  • 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
  • UTC() Returns the number of milliseconds in a date since midnight of January 1, 1970,
    • according to UTC time
  • valueOf() Returns the primitive value of a Date object
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