getTime Method

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Description

Call this function to retrieve the time stored in the specified Date object.

Syntax

var varName = objDate.getTime( )

Return Value

An integer value representing the number of milliseconds between Midnight, January 1, 1970 and the time stored in the Date object.

Arguments

The getTime method has no arguments.

Remarks

When doing multiple date and time calculations, it is frequently useful to define variables equal to the number of milliseconds in a day, hour, or minute. For example:

varMinuteMilli = 1000 * 60
varHourMilli = varMinuteMilli * 60
varDayMilli = varHourMilli * 24