Skip to Content
ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition
book

ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition

by Colin Moock
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1088 pages
192h 4m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition
Date.setYear() Method
This is the Title of the Book, eMatter Edition
Copyright © 2007 O’Reilly & Associates, Inc. All rights reserved.
Alphabetical Language Reference
|
517
Returns
An integer representing the number of milliseconds between the new date and midnight,
January 1, 1970, in UTC time.
Date.setUTCMonth() Method
assign the month of the year (UTC time)
Flash 5
date.setUTCMonth(month)
Arguments
month An integer from 0 (January) to 11 (December), not from 1 to 12, representing
the new month of the year of
date, in UTC time.
Returns
An integer representing the number of milliseconds between the new date and midnight,
January 1, 1970, in UTC time.
Usage
Be careful not to assume that 1 is January! Months start at 0, not 1.
Date.setUTCSeconds() Method
assign the seconds of a date (UTC time)
Flash 5
date.setUTCSeconds(seconds)
Arguments
seconds An integer from 0 to 59, representing the new seconds of the minute of date,
in UTC time.
Returns
An integer representing the number of milliseconds between the new date and midnight,
January 1, 1970, in UTC time.
Date.setYear() Method
assign the year, relative to 1900
Flash 5
date.setYear(year, month, day)
Arguments
year A required integer specifying the new year of date. If one or two digits are
supplied, the year is assumed to be in the twentieth century (1900s). For
example, 1 is the year 1901, and 99 is the year 1999. Three-digit years are
assumed to be prior to 1000 A.D. ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University, Second Edition

ActionScript 3.0 Game Programming University, Second Edition

Gary Rosenzweig
ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference for Macromedia® Flash® 8

ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference for Macromedia® Flash® 8

Francis Cheng, Jen deHaan, Robert L. Dixon, Shimul Rahim
ActionScript 3.0 Bible

ActionScript 3.0 Bible

Roger Braunstein

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 059600396XCatalog PageErrata