Name

Date.setHours() — set the hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds fields of a Date

Synopsis

date.setHours(hours)
date.setHours(hours, minutes)
date.setHours(hours, minutes, seconds)
date.setHours(hours, minutes, seconds, millis)

Arguments

hours

An integer between 0 (midnight) and 23 (11 p.m.) local time that is set as the new hours value of date.

minutes

An optional integer, between 0 and 59, that is used as the new value (in local time) of the minutes field of date. This argument is not supported prior to ECMAScript standardization.

seconds

An optional integer, between 0 and 59, that is used as the new value (in local time) of the seconds field of date. This argument is not supported prior to ECMAScript standardization.

millis

An optional integer, between 0 and 999, that is used as the new value (in local time) of the milliseconds field of date. This argument is not supported prior to ECMAScript standardization.

Returns

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

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