I am doing the following:
new Date().setFullYear(2011, 0, 1);
Does this gives me the number of seconds since January 1, 1970?
I am doing the following: new Date().setFullYear(2011, 0, 1); Does this gives me the
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I am doing the following:
new Date().setFullYear(2011, 0, 1);
Does this gives me the number of seconds since January 1, 1970?
Internally, Javascript stores a date as the number of milliseconds since midnight, January 1, 1970. (Not seconds — milliseconds.) You can get this number out of the date object with the getTime function.
In practice, the “base date” rarely makes a difference. Usually you use the various Date functions to format the date in a conventional format. You occasionally get differences between two times by using getTime and subtracting one from another.