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title: Date Object
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---
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# What is the Date Object?
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The Date Object in JavaScript lets us work with dates. We can use it to get the current time and date, or create an object that stores a time a date of your choosing.
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# How to Create a Date Object
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There are four ways to create a Date Object:
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1) To get the current time:
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```js
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var currentDate = new Date();
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```
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2) To create a new date object with a specified date and time
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```js
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var specifiedDate = new Date(2019, 4, 29, 15, 0, 0, 0);
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```
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This will return
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Wed May 29 2019 15:00:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
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```
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The structure is (year, month, day, hour, minute, second, millisecond).
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NOTE: The months start from 0.
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3) Creating object using milliseconds
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```js
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var millisecondDate = new Date(0);
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```
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This returns the milliseconds passed into date, in this case 0, plus time zero. Time zero for the Date Object is January 1st, 1970.
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In a day there's 86,400,000 milliseconds so:
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```js
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var millisecondDate = new Date(86400000);
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```
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will return the day after date zero so January 2nd, 1970.
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4) To create a Date Object from a string:
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```js
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var stringDate = new Date("May 29, 2019 15:00:00");
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```
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this returns
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```
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Wed May 29 2019 15:00:00 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
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```
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