Name
Date.getTime() — return a Date in milliseconds
Synopsis
date
.
getTime
()
Returns
The millisecond representation of the specified Date object
date
—that 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. Don’t 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
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