Name
Date.toString( ) Method — a human-readable string representing the date
Availability
Flash 5
Synopsis
date.toString( )
Returns
A string giving the current time and date of
date
in human-readable format, including
the UTC (GMT)
offset. To compose customized representations of the date, use the
methods for retrieving the day, hours, minutes, and so on, and map
those values onto your own strings, as shown earlier in the example
under Date class.
Example
trace (myDate.toString( )); // Displays a date in the format: // Wed Sep 15 12:11:33 GMT-0400 1999
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