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Date.setTime()

Sets a date to a specified number of milliseconds after/before January 1, 1970

The setTime() method sets the Date object to the time represented by a number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC.

var event1 = new Date('July 1, 1999');
var event2 = new Date();
event2.setTime(event1.getTime());

console.log(event1);
// expected output: Thu Jul 01 1999 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (CEST)

console.log(event2);
// expected output: Thu Jul 01 1999 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (CEST)
// (note: your timezone may vary)

Syntax

dateObj.setTime(timeValue)

Parameters

timeValueAn integer representing the number of milliseconds since 1 January 1970, 00:00:00 UTC.

Return value

The number of milliseconds between 1 January 1970 00:00:00 UTC and the updated date (effectively, the value of the argument).

Description

Examples

Using setTime()

var theBigDay = new Date('July 1, 1999');
var sameAsBigDay = new Date();
sameAsBigDay.setTime(theBigDay.getTime());

References

Contributors to this page

Uros Durdevic

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Last updated 6 years ago

Use the setTime() method to help assign a date and time to another object.

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