Question

I have a line of code that sets a cookie with an expiry date that looks like this.

var date = new Date();
date.setTime(date.getTime() + 1000*60*60*24*365);
var expires = "; expires=" + date.toGMTString();

What I’m trying to do is understand what each number represents. I know thats its just adding milliseconds to the time object but what does each one represent is the question.

Answer 1

1000 milliseconds in a second

60 seconds in a minute

60 minutes in an hour

24 hour in a day

365 days in a year

So, you’ll get the quantity of milliseconds in a year.