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JavaScript Date Methods

The Date object in JavaScript allows you to interact with dates and times, such as days, months, years, hours, minutes, seconds, and milliseconds. To acquire a Date for the current time or Date, use new Date(). The time is maintained internally as a number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970 UTC. Lets take an example to fetch current date and time.


const x = new Date();
let val = x.getDate();
console.log(val); // 18
MethodDescriptionExample
getDate()The day of the month is returned. 

const x = new Date();
let val = x.getDate();
console.log(val); // 18
getDay()The day of the week is returned. 

const x = new Date();
let val = x.getDay();
console.log(val); // 6
getFullYear()Returns the year 

const x = new Date();
let val = x.getFullYear();
console.log(val); // 2022
getHours()Returns the hour 

const x = new Date();
let val = x.getHours();
console.log(val); // 20
getMinutes()Returns the minute 

const x = new Date();
let val = x.getMinutes();
console.log(val); // 13
getSeconds()Returns the seconds 

const x = new Date();
let val = x.getSeconds();
console.log(val); // 40
getMilliseconds()Returns the milliseconds 

const x = new Date();
let val = x.getMilliseconds();
console.log(val); // 277
setTime()Sets a date to a number of milliseconds 

const x = new Date();
x.setTime(1647649574758);
console.log(x); // 2022-03-19T00:26:14.758Z
setDate()Sets a date 

const x = new Date();
x.setDate(11);
console.log(x); // 2022-03-11T01:12:22.774Z
toString()This function converts a Date object to a string. 

const d = new Date();
let val = x.toString();
console.log(typeof val); //string
parse()Returns the value of milliseconds since January 1, 1970 after parsing a date string. 

let val = Date.parse("April 17, 1992");
console.log(val); //703468800000
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