Parses a string containing a date, and returns the number of milliseconds between that date and midnight, January 1, 1970.
SyntaxDate.parse( dateVal )
Examples
The following example illustrates the use of the Date.parse function.
var dateString = "November 1, 1997 10:15 AM";
var mSec = Date.parse(dateString);
document.write(mSec);
The following example returns the difference between the date provided and 1/1/1970.
var minMilli = 1000 * 60;
var hrMilli = minMilli * 60;
var dyMilli = hrMilli * 24;
var ms = Date.parse(new Date("June 1, 1990"));
var days = Math.round(ms / dyMilli);
var dateStr = "";
dateStr += "There are " + days + " days ";
dateStr += "between 01/01/1970 and " + testDate;
document.write(dateStr);
Remarks
The required dateVal argument is either a string containing a date or a VT_DATE value retrieved from an ActiveX object or other object. For information about date strings that the Date.parse function can parse. see Formatting Date and Time Strings (Windows Scripting - JScript).
The Date.parse function returns an integer value representing the number of milliseconds between midnight, January 1, 1970 and the date supplied in dateVal.
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