Availability
JavaScript 1.0; JScript 1.0; ECMAScript v1
Synopsis
date.getTime( )Returns
The millisecond representation of the specified Date object
date; that is, the number of milliseconds
between midnight (GMT) on 1/1/1970 and the date and time specified by
date.
Description
getTime( ) converts a date and time to a single
integer. This is useful when you want to compare two Date objects or
to determine the time elapsed between two dates. Note that the
millisecond representation of a date is independent of the time zone,
so there is no getUTCTime( ) method in addition to
this one. Don't confuse this getTime( )
method with the getDay( ) and getDate(
) methods, which return the day of the week and the day of
the month, respectively.
Date.parse( ) and Date.UTC( )
allow you to convert a date and time specification to millisecond
representation without going through the overhead of first creating a
Date object.
See Also
Date, Date.parse( ), Date.setTime( ), Date.UTC( )