Date Functions - Course JavaScript - Part 12 | web Developer courses

Duration:  16 minutes

Summary: In this video we continue our discussion of JavaScript objects. We talked about the Math class and all the static methods it contains. Now we discuss the Date class. This class is important in the sense that there are a lot of functions and actions (events) that you need to trigger on the browser based on a specific date. We start by creating two Date objects: one based on a specific date and the other represents the current date. Then we changed some of the values for the current date (the day, month, and the year).  After that, we displayed the dates and times in different formats using the following functions: toDateString, toLocaleDateString, toLocateTimeString, toString, toTimeString, toUTCString, toString. Couple of things to note here: (1) to set the day for a date , you use the setDate() function, and (2) the month in a date object starts at 0 to work well with arrays instead of 1 (so December is 11 not 12).

Methodology of the development of example: Good coding standard and simplified design.

Technology Used: JavaScript – Core language Concepts

Keywords: CSS, JavaScript, HTML, function, var, script, document, writeln, Date, setDate, setMonth, setYear, toDateString, toLocaleDateString, toLocateTimeString, toString, toTimeString, toUTCString, toString.