### Date Methods

Before you can do anything which involves the current date/time, you have to set a variable equal to the current date. now = new Date() is command to get the current date and time from the user's computer, and assign it to the variable, now in one long string.

toLocaleString() is a method which converts the raw date/time string of text into the local convention. Depending on what country JavaScript thinks the user is in, the toLocaleString() may present the month first, or the day first.

now = now.toLocaleString() =

Here are some other Date methods:

If now = now.getDay()= Day of week (0=Sunday) now.getMonth()= Month (0 to 11) now.getDate()=Day of month now.getYear()= Year Note: IE returns a 4 digit year, Netscape returns the number of years since 1900. Use this syntax: year=getYear(); if (year<1900) {year+=1900}; now.getHours()= Hours now.getMinutes()= Minutes now.getSeconds()= Seconds now.getTime()= ..........Milliseconds since January 1, 1990 at Midnight. now.gettimezoneOffset()= minutes off from GMT