MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-ACTIONSCRIPT 2.0 LANGUAGE - Page 481

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In the third line, a Date object is created with year, month, and date parameters passed to it,
resulting in the time 09:30:15 GMT (+ 0 milliseconds) March 6, 1965. Note that since the
year parameter is specified as a two-digit integer, it is interpreted as 1965.
In the fourth line, only one parameter is passed, which is a time value representing the
number of milliseconds before or after 0:00:00 GMT January 1, 1970; since the value is
negative, it represents a time before 0:00:00 GMT January 1, 1970, and in this case the time is
02:56:15 GMT July, 21 1969.
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 5
Parameters
yearOrTimevalue:Number [optional] - If other parameters are specified, this number
represents a year (such as 1965); otherwise, it represents a time value. If the number represents
a year, a value of 0 to 99 indicates 1900 through 1999; otherwise all four digits of the year
must be specified. If the number represents a time value (no other parameters are specified), it
is the number of milliseconds before or after 0:00:00 GMT January 1, 1970; a negative values
represents a time before 0:00:00 GMT January 1, 1970, and a positive value represents a time
after.
month:Number [optional] - An integer from 0 (January) to 11 (December).
date:Number [optional] - An integer from 1 to 31.
hour:Number [optional] - An integer from 0 (midnight) to 23 (11 p.m.).
minute:Number [optional] - An integer from 0 to 59.
second:Number [optional] - An integer from 0 to 59.
millisecond:Number [optional] - An integer from 0 to 999 of milliseconds.
Example
The following example retrieves the current date and time:
var now_date:Date = new Date();
The following example creates a new Date object for Mary's birthday, August 12, 1974
(because the month parameter is zero-based, the example uses 7 for the month, not 8):
var maryBirthday:Date = new Date (74, 7, 12);
The following example creates a new Date object and concatenates the returned values of
Date.getMonth(), Date.getDate(), and Date.getFullYear():
var today_date:Date = new Date();
var date_str:String = ((today_date.getMonth()+1)+"/
"+today_date.getDate()+"/"+today_date.getFullYear());
trace(date_str); // displays current date in United States date format