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JavaScript getTime () method

Date Object Reference JavaScript Date Object

Examples

Returns from the number of milliseconds between January 1, 1970:

var d = new Date();
var n = d.getTime();

n output:


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Definition and Usage

getTime () method returns the number of milliseconds from between January 1, 1970.


Browser Support

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All major browsers support getTime () method


grammar

Date .getTime ()

return value

Types of description
Number Specified date and time from January 1, 1970 the number of milliseconds midnight (GMT time) between.

technical details

JavaScript version: 1.0


More examples

Examples

In the following example, we will calculate how many years from date 1970/01/01:

var minutes=1000*60;
var hours=minutes*60;
var days=hours*24;
var years=days*365;
var d=new Date();
var t=d.getTime();

var y=Math.round(t/years);

y output:


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Date Object Reference JavaScript Date Object