Name

Date.setDate( ) — set the day of the month

Availability

JavaScript 1.0; JScript 1.0; ECMAScript v1

Synopsis

                  date.setDate(day_of_month)

Arguments

day_of_month

An integer between 1 and 31 that is used as the new value (in local time) of the day-of-month field of date.

Returns

The millisecond representation of the adjusted date. Prior to ECMAScript standardization, this method returns nothing.

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