Baseline Widely available
The Date.UTC()
static method accepts parameters representing the date and time components similar to the Date
constructor, but treats them as UTC. It returns the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC.
const utcDate1 = new Date(Date.UTC(96, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5));
const utcDate2 = new Date(Date.UTC(0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0));
console.log(utcDate1.toUTCString());
// Expected output: "Fri, 02 Feb 1996 03:04:05 GMT"
console.log(utcDate2.toUTCString());
// Expected output: "Sun, 31 Dec 1899 00:00:00 GMT"
Syntax
Date.UTC(year)
Date.UTC(year, monthIndex)
Date.UTC(year, monthIndex, day)
Date.UTC(year, monthIndex, day, hours)
Date.UTC(year, monthIndex, day, hours, minutes)
Date.UTC(year, monthIndex, day, hours, minutes, seconds)
Date.UTC(year, monthIndex, day, hours, minutes, seconds, milliseconds)
Parameters
year
Integer value representing the year. Values from 0
to 99
map to the years 1900
to 1999
. All other values are the actual year. See the example.
monthIndex
Optional
Integer value representing the month, beginning with 0
for January to 11
for December. Defaults to 0
.
day
Optional
Integer value representing the day of the month. Defaults to 1
.
hours
Optional
Integer value between 0
and 23
representing the hour of the day. Defaults to 0
.
minutes
Optional
Integer value representing the minute segment of a time. Defaults to 0
.
seconds
Optional
Integer value representing the second segment of a time. Defaults to 0
.
milliseconds
Optional
Integer value representing the millisecond segment of a time. Defaults to 0
.
A number representing the timestamp of the given date. Returns NaN
if the date is invalid.
Years between 0
and 99
are converted to a year in the 20th century (1900 + year)
. For example, 95
is converted to the year 1995
.
The UTC()
method differs from the Date()
constructor in three ways:
Date.UTC()
uses universal time instead of the local time.Date.UTC()
returns a time value as a number instead of creating a Date
object.Date.UTC()
interprets it as a year instead of a timestamp.If a parameter is outside of the expected range, the UTC()
method updates the other parameters to accommodate the value. For example, if 15
is used for monthIndex
, the year will be incremented by 1 (year + 1)
and 3
will be used for the month.
Because UTC()
is a static method of Date
, you always use it as Date.UTC()
, rather than as a method of a Date
object you created.
The following statement creates a Date
object with the arguments treated as UTC instead of local:
const utcDate = new Date(Date.UTC(2018, 11, 1, 0, 0, 0));
Behavior of Date.UTC() with one argument
Date.UTC()
when passed one argument used to have inconsistent behavior, because implementations only kept the behavior consistent with the Date()
constructor, which does not interpret a single argument as the year number. Implementations are now required to treat omitted monthIndex
as 0
, instead of coercing it to NaN
.
Date.UTC(2017); // 1483228800000
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