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( )
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Errata
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition
By
David Flanagan
Publisher
: O'Reilly
Pub Date
: November 2001
ISBN
: 0-596-00048-0
Pages
: 936
Slots
: 1
This fourth edition of the definitive reference to
JavaScript, a scripting language that can be embedded
directly in web pages, covers the latest version of the
language, JavaScript 1.5, as supported by Netscape 6 and
Internet Explorer 6. The book also provides complete
coverage of the W3C DOM standard (Level 1 and Level 2),
while retaining material on the legacy Level 0 DOM for
backward compatibility.