Recipe 14.2.
Retrieving the Date Values
Problem
You want to retrieve the year, month, day
of month, day of week, hour, minute, second, or millisecond value
from a Date object.
Solution
Use the fullYear, date, month, day, hours, minutes, seconds, or milliseconds properties.
Discussion
The fullYear, date, month,
day, hours, minutes, seconds, and
milliseconds properties return the values from a Date
object:
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The fullYear property specifies the year
as a four-digit value, such as 2010.
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The date property specifies the day of
the month as a value from 1 to 31.
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The month property specifies the month as
an integer from 0 (January) to 11 (December).
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The day property specifies the day of the
week as an integer from 0 (Sunday) to 6 (Saturday).
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The hours property returns the hours
value as an integer from 0 (midnight) to 23 (11 p.m.).
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The minutes and seconds properties
return values from 0 to 59.
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The milliseconds property returns a value
from 0 to 999.
Each of these properties has a UTC (Coordinated
Universal Time, also known as Greenwich Mean Time) correspondent.
For example, although the hours property returns the current
hours value based on the client computer's clock, the
hoursUTC property returns the current hours value in UTC
time.
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