JavaScript getTime() Method: Date Object

Last update on August 19 2022 21:51:07 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

Description

The getTime() method is used to get the milliseconds of a given date according to local time.
The value returned by the getTime() method is the number of milliseconds since 1 January 1970 00:00:00.

Version

Implemented in JavaScript 1.0

Syntax

getTime()

Example:

In the following web document getTime() method calculates the milliseconds passed between to date.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>JavaScript date object - getTime() method example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1 style="color: red">JavaScript date object : getTime() method</h1>
<hr />
<script type="text/javascript">
//This is done to make the following JavaScript code compatible to XHTML. <![CDATA[
fdate2002 = new Date(2008,1,1,0,0,0,0);
ldate2009 = new Date(2009,1,1,0,0,0,0);
document.write('Milliseconds passed between 1-1-2009 and 1-1-2008  :  '+(ldate2009.getTime()-fdate2002.getTime()))
//]]>
</script>
</body>
</html>

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Supported Browser

Internet Explorer 7	Firefox 3.6	Google Chrome 7	Safari 5.0.1	Opera 10
Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

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