Name
Date.getTime( ): return a Date in milliseconds â ECMAScript v1
Synopsis
date
.getTime( )
Returns
The millisecond representation of the specified Date object
date
âthat is, the number of
milliseconds between midnight (GMT) on 1/1/1970 and the date and
time specified by date
.
Description
getTime( )
converts a date
and time to a single integer. This is useful when you want to
compare two Date objects or to determine the time elapsed between
two dates. Note that the millisecond representation of a date is
independent of the time zone, so there is no getUTCTime( )
method in addition to this
one. Donât confuse this getTime(
)
method with the getDay(
)
and getDate( )
methods, which return the day of the week and the day of the month,
respectively.
Date.parse( )
and Date.UTC( )
allow you to convert a date
and time specification to a millisecond representation without going
through the overhead of first creating a Date object.
See Also
Date
, Date.parse( )
, Date.setTime( )
, Date.UTC( )
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