The JavaScript date object can be used to get year, month and day. You can display a timer on the webpage by the help of JavaScript date object.
Constructor
You can use 4 variant of Date constructor to create date object.
- Date()
- Date(milliseconds)
- Date(dateString)
- Date(year, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds)
JavaScript Date Methods
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| getDate() | Returns numeric day (1 – 31) of the specified date. |
| getDay() | Returns the day of the week (0 – 6) for the specified date. |
| getFullYear() | Returns four digit year of the specified date. |
| getHours() | Returns the hour (0 – 23) in the specified date. |
| getMilliseconds() | Returns the milliseconds (0 – 999) in the specified date. |
| getMinutes() | Returns the minutes (0 – 59) in the specified date. |
| getMonth() | Returns the month (0 – 11) in the specified date. |
| getSeconds() | Returns the seconds (0 – 59) in the specified date. |
| getTime() | Returns the milliseconds as number since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC. |
| getTimezoneOffset() | Returns the time zone offset in minutes for the current locale. |
| getUTCDate() | Returns the day (1 – 31) of the month of the specified date as per UTC time zone. |
| getUTCDay() | Returns the day (0 – 6) of the week of the specified date as per UTC timezone. |
| getUTCFullYear() | Returns the four digits year of the specified date as per UTC time zone. |
| getUTCHours() | Returns the hours (0 – 23) of the specified date as per UTC time zone. |
| getUTCMilliseconds() | Returns the milliseconds (0 – 999) of the specified date as per UTC time zone. |
| getUTCMinutes() | Returns the minutes (0 – 59) of the specified date as per UTC time zone. |
| getUTCMonth() | Returns the month (0 – 11) of the specified date as per UTC time zone. |
| getUTCSeconds() | Returns the seconds (0 – 59) of the specified date as per UTC time zone. |
| getYear() | Returns the no of years of the specified date since 1990. This method is Deprecated |
The following table lists all the set methods of Date object.
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| setDate() | Sets the day as number in the date object. |
| setFullYear() | Sets the four digit full year as number in the date object. Optionally set month and date. |
| setHours() | Sets the hours as number in the date object. Optionally set minutes, seconds and milliseconds. |
| setMilliseconds() | Sets the milliseconds as number in the date object. |
| setMinutes() | Sets the minutes as number in the date object. Optionally set seconds & milliseconds. |
| setMonth() | Sets the month as number in the date object. Optionally set date. |
| setSeconds() | Sets the seconds as number in the date object. Optionally set milliseconds. |
| setTime() | Sets the time as number in the Date object since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC. |
| setUTCDate() | Sets the day in the date object as per UTC time zone. |
| setUTCFullYear() | Sets the full year in the date object as per UTC time zone |
| setUTCHours() | Sets the hour in the date object as per UTC time zone |
| setUTCMilliseconds() | Sets the milliseconds in the date object as per UTC time zone |
| setUTCMinutes() | Sets the minutes in the date object as per UTC time zone |
| setUTCMonth() | Sets the month in the date object as per UTC time zone |
| setUTCSeconds() | Sets the seconds in the date object as per UTC time zone |
| setYear() | Sets the year in the date object. This method is Deprecated |
| toDateString() | Returns the date segment from the specified date, excludes time. |
|---|---|
| toGMTString() | Returns a date string in GMT time zone. |
| toLocaleDateString() | Returns the date segment of the specified date using the current locale. |
| toLocaleFormat() | Returns a date string in default format. |
| toLocaleString() | Returns a date string using a current locale format. |
| toLocaleTimeString() | Returns the time segment of the specified Date as a string. |
| toString() | Returns a string for the specified Date object. |
| toTimeString() | Returns the time segment as a string from the specified date object. |
| toUTCString() | Returns a string as per UTC time zone. |
| valueOf() | Returns the primitive value of a Date object. |
