Javascript, Time and Date: Getting the current minute, hour, day, week, month, year of a given millisecond time
The variable names should be descriptive:
var date = new Date;
date.setTime(result_from_Date_getTime);
var seconds = date.getSeconds();
var minutes = date.getMinutes();
var hour = date.getHours();
var year = date.getFullYear();
var month = date.getMonth(); // beware: January = 0; February = 1, etc.
var day = date.getDate();
var dayOfWeek = date.getDay(); // Sunday = 0, Monday = 1, etc.
var milliSeconds = date.getMilliseconds();
The days of a given month do not change. In a leap year, February has 29 days. Inspired by http://www.javascriptkata.com/2007/05/24/how-to-know-if-its-a-leap-year/ (thanks Peter Bailey!)
Continued from the previous code:
var days_in_months = [31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31];
// for leap years, February has 29 days. Check whether
// February, the 29th exists for the given year
if( (new Date(year, 1, 29)).getDate() == 29 ) days_in_month[1] = 29;
There is no straightforward way to get the week of a year. For the answer on that question, see Is there a way in javascript to create a date object using year & ISO week number?
Here is another method to get date
new Date().getDate() // Get the day as a number (1-31)
new Date().getDay() // Get the weekday as a number (0-6)
new Date().getFullYear() // Get the four digit year (yyyy)
new Date().getHours() // Get the hour (0-23)
new Date().getMilliseconds() // Get the milliseconds (0-999)
new Date().getMinutes() // Get the minutes (0-59)
new Date().getMonth() // Get the month (0-11)
new Date().getSeconds() // Get the seconds (0-59)
new Date().getTime() // Get the time (milliseconds since January 1, 1970)
Regarding number of days in month just use static switch command and check if (year % 4 == 0)
in which case February will have 29 days.
Minute, hour, day etc:
var someMillisecondValue = 511111222127;
var date = new Date(someMillisecondValue);
var minute = date.getMinutes();
var hour = date.getHours();
var day = date.getDate();
var month = date.getMonth();
var year = date.getFullYear();
alert([minute, hour, day, month, year].join("\n"));