August 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1018 pages
34h 13m
English
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Name
Date.getTime( ): return a Date in milliseconds — ECMAScript v1
Synopsis
date.getTime( )
Returns
The millisecond representation of the specified Date object
date—that is, the number of
milliseconds between midnight (GMT) on 1/1/1970 and the date and
time specified by date.
Description
getTime( ) converts a date
and time to a single integer. This is useful when you want to
compare two Date objects or to determine the time elapsed between
two dates. Note that the millisecond representation of a date is
independent of the time zone, so there is no getUTCTime( ) method in addition to this
one. Don’t confuse this getTime(
) method with the getDay(
) and getDate( )
methods, which return the day of the week and the day of the month,
respectively.
Date.parse( ) and Date.UTC( ) allow you to convert a date
and time specification to a millisecond representation without going
through the overhead of first creating a Date object.
See Also
Date, Date.parse( ), Date.setTime( ), Date.UTC( )
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