The Date Object

The Date object is used to work with date and time.It is used for 2 tasks:

1. Storing dates and time
2. Retrieve current date and time

Date Constructors

1. Date( ): This creates a Date object with the current date and time of browser’s PC.

   var now=new Date( );

2. Date(“Month dd,yyyy”)

   var now;

   now=new Date(“February 4,2013”);

3. Date(yy,mm,dd)

   var now;

   now=new Date(13,2,4);

4. Date(“Month dd,yyyy hh:mm:ss” ):

   var now;

   now=new Date(“February 4,2013 17:45:00”);

5. Date(yy,mm,dd,hh,mm,ss)

   var now;

   now=new Date(13,2,4,17,45,0);

6. Date(milliseconds) Creates a date object with the date value represented by number of milliseconds passed since midnight Jan 1,1970

   var now;

   now=new Date(500);

Using Date Methods

1. getDate( ) Returns day of the month.
2. getDay( ) Returns day of the week from 0 to 6.
3. getFullYear( ) Returns year with 4 digits.
4. getMonth( ) Returns month from 0 to 11.
5. getHours( ) Returns the hour (0 to 23).
6. getMinutes( ) Returns the minute component.
7. getSeconds( ) Returns the seconds component.
8. toString( ) Returns the string representation of Date object

   var d=new Date();
   var str=d.toString();

   The result of str will be:

   Mon Feb 04 2013 12:30:59 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)

9. toDateString( ) Returns the string representation of date portion of Date object

   var d=new Date();
   var str=d.toDateString();

   The result of str will be:

   Mon Feb 04 2013

10.  toTimeString( ) Returns the string representation of time  portion of Date object

    var d=new Date();
    var str=d.toTimeString();

    The result of str will be:

    12:33:39 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)