Name
Date.setTime() — set a Date in milliseconds
Synopsis
date
.
setTime
(
milliseconds
)
Arguments
milliseconds
The number of milliseconds between the desired date and time and midnight GMT on January 1, 1970. A millisecond value of this type may also be passed to the
Date()
constructor and may be obtained by calling theDate.UTC()
andDate.parse()
methods. Representing a date in this millisecond format makes it independent of time zone.
Returns
The milliseconds
argument. Prior
to ECMAScript standardization, this method returns nothing.
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