D-E > Date.toString

 

Date.toString

Availability

Flash Player 5.

Usage

myDate.toString()

Parameters

None.

Returns

A string.

Description

Method; returns a string value for the specified date object in a readable format, and returns the new time in milliseconds.

Example

The following example returns the information in the dateOfBirth Date object as a string.

var dateOfBirth = new Date(74, 7, 7, 18, 15);
trace (dateOfBirth.toString());

Output (for Pacific Standard Time):

Wed Aug 7 18:15:00 GMT-0700 1974