{"id":8234,"date":"2024-03-14T07:46:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T07:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/what-are-the-common-methods-of-the-date-object-in-javascript\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T02:14:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T02:14:38","slug":"what-are-the-common-methods-of-the-date-object-in-javascript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/what-are-the-common-methods-of-the-date-object-in-javascript\/","title":{"rendered":"JavaScript Date Methods Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. getDate(): Get the day from the date.<\/li>\n
  2. Get the month from the date.<\/li>\n
  3. getFullYear(): Retrieve the year from the date.<\/li>\n
  4. getHours(): retrieve the hour from the time<\/li>\n
  5. Retrieve the minutes from the time.<\/li>\n
  6. getSeconds(): retrieve the seconds from the time<\/li>\n
  7. retrieve the milliseconds from the time<\/li>\n
  8. getTime(): Obtain the timestamp of a date object.<\/li>\n
  9. setDate(): Set the day in the date.<\/li>\n
  10. setMonth(): to set the month in a date<\/li>\n
  11. setFullYear(): Set the year in the date<\/li>\n
  12. setHours(): set the hours in the time.<\/li>\n
  13. SetMinutes(): Set the minutes in the time.<\/li>\n
  14. setSeconds(): set the seconds in the time.<\/li>\n
  15. setMilliseconds(): To adjust the milliseconds in the time.<\/li>\n
  16. toDateString(): Convert the date to a string, displaying only the date portion.<\/li>\n
  17. Convert the date to a string, displaying only the time part.<\/li>\n
  18. toLocaleDateString(): Convert the date to a localized date string.<\/li>\n
  19. toLocaleTimeString(): Convert the date to a localized time string<\/li>\n
  20. toString(): Converts the date to a string, displaying the complete date and time information.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    getDate(): Get the day from the date. Get the month from the date. getFullYear(): Retrieve the year from the date. getHours(): retrieve the hour from the time Retrieve the minutes from the time. getSeconds(): retrieve the seconds from the time retrieve the milliseconds from the time getTime(): Obtain the timestamp of a date object. setDate(): […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10962,10963,10961,10964,326],"class_list":["post-8234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-date-methods","tag-gethours-js","tag-javascript-date","tag-js-settime","tag-web-development"],"yoast_head":"\nJavaScript Date Methods Guide - Blog - Silicon Cloud<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Master JavaScript Date object methods: getDate, getFullYear, setTime & more. 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