November 2001
Intermediate to advanced
936 pages
68h 43m
English
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Name
Date.setTime( ) — set a Date in milliseconds
Availability
JavaScript 1.0; JScript 1.0; ECMAScript v1
Synopsis
date.setTime(milliseconds)
Arguments
-
milliseconds The number of milliseconds between the desired date and time and midnight GMT on January 1, 1970. A millisecond value of this type may also be passed to the
Date( )constructor and may be obtained by calling theDate.UTC( )andDate.parse( )methods. Representing a date in this millisecond format makes it independent of time zone.
Returns
The milliseconds argument. Prior to
ECMAScript standardization, this method returns nothing.