Name
Date.parse() — parse a date/time string
Synopsis
Date
.
parse
(
date
)
Arguments
date
A string containing the date and time to be parsed.
Returns
The number of milliseconds between the specified date and time and midnight GMT on January 1, 1970.
Description
Date.parse()
is a static
method of Date. It parses the date specified by its single string
argument returns it as the number of milliseconds since the epoch.
This return value can be used directly, used to create a new Date
object, or used to set the date in an existing Date object with
Date.setTime()
.
ECMAScript 5 requires this method to be able to parse strings
returned by the Date.toISOString()
method. In ECMAScript 5
and before, this method is also required to be able to parse the
implementation-dependent strings returned by the toUTCString()
and toString()
methods.
See Also
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