December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1088 pages
192h 4m
English
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Date.getDay() Method
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Date.getDay() Method
the day of the week
Flash 5
date.getDay()
Returns
An integer from 0 (Sunday) to 6 (Saturday), representing the day of the week for date.
Example
The following code loads a .swf file specific to the current day of the week into the movie
clip
welcomeHeader (the seven .swf files are named in the series sun.swf, mon.swf, and so
on):
now = new Date();
today = now.getDay();
days = ["sun", "mon", "tue", "wed", "thu", "fri", "sat"];
welcomeHeader.loadMovie(days[today] + ".swf");
Date.getFullYear() Method
the four-digit year
Flash 5
date.getFullYear()
Returns
A four-digit integer, representing the year for date (for example, 1999 or 2000).
See Also
Date.getYear()
Date.getHours() Method
the hour of the day
Flash 5
date.getHours()
Returns
An integer from 0 (midnight) to 23 (11 P.M.), representing the hour of the day for date.
A.M. and P.M. notation are not supported but can be constructed manually, as shown in
the Date class examples.
Date.getMilliseconds() Method
the milliseconds of a date
Flash 5
date.getMilliseconds()
Returns
An integer from 0 to 999, representing the milliseconds of date. Note that it does not repre-
sent the milliseconds from 1970—see Date.getTime()—rather, it represents the fractional
remainder of the seconds indicated ...
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