JavaScript Date Methods

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Date Methods

The following table provides a list of all Date methods available in JavaScript.

EventExplanation
getDate()Returns the day of the month (from 1 to 31)
getDay()Returns the day of the week (from 0-6)
getFullYear()Returns the year (in 4 digits)
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 numeric value of the specified date as the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC (negative for prior times)
getTimezoneOffset()Returns the time-zone offset in minutes for the current locale.
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 (in 4 digits)
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 numeric value corresponding to the current time - the number of milliseconds elapsed since January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC, with leap seconds ignored
parse()Parses a string representation of a date and returns the number of milliseconds since 1 January, 1970, 00:00:00, UTC, with leap seconds ignored
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 object
setTime()Sets the Date object to the time represented by a number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC, allowing for negative numbers for times prior
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()Converts a date to a string following the ISO 8601 Extended Format
toJSON()Returns a string representing the Date using toISOString(). Intended for use by JSON.stringify()
toLocaleDateString()Returns a string with a locality sensitive representation of the date portion of this date based on system settings
toLocaleTimeString()Returns a string with a locality sensitive representation of the time portion of this date based on system settings
toLocaleString()Converts a Date object to a string, using locale conventions
toTimeString()Returns the "time" portion of the Date as a human-readable string
toUTCString()Converts a date to a string using the UTC timezone
UTC()Returns the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC, with leap seconds ignored
valueOf()Returns the primitive value of a Date object

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