Date

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@:coreApi Available on all platforms

The Date class provides a basic structure for date and time related information. Date instances can be created by

• new Date() for a specific date,
• Date.now() to obtain information about the current time,
• Date.fromTime() with a given timestamp or
• Date.fromString() by parsing from a String.

There are some extra functions available in the DateTools class.

In the context of Haxe dates, a timestamp is defined as the number of milliseconds elapsed since 1st January 1970.

Constructor

@:has_untyped new (year:Int, month:Int, day:Int, hour:Int, min:Int, sec:Int)

Creates a new date object from the given arguments.

The behaviour of a Date instance is only consistent across platforms if the the arguments describe a valid date.

• month: 0 to 11
• day: 1 to 31
• hour: 0 to 23
• min: 0 to 59
• sec: 0 to 59

Methods

@:has_untyped getDate ():Int

Returns the day of this Date (1-31 range).

@:has_untyped getDay ():Int

Returns the day of the week of this Date (0-6 range) where 0 is Sunday.

@:has_untyped getFullYear ():Int

Returns the full year of this Date (4-digits).

@:has_untyped getHours ():Int

Returns the hours of this Date (0-23 range).

@:has_untyped getMinutes ():Int

Returns the minutes of this Date (0-59 range).

@:has_untyped getMonth ():Int

Returns the month of this Date (0-11 range).

@:has_untyped getSeconds ():Int

Returns the seconds of this Date (0-59 range).

getTime ():Float

Returns the timestamp (in milliseconds) of the date. It might only have a per-second precision depending on the platforms.

@:has_untyped toString ():String

Returns a string representation of this Date, by using the standard format [YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS]. See DateTools.format for other formating rules.

Static methods

static fromString (s:String):Date

Returns a Date from a formated string s, with the following accepted formats:

• "YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss"
• "YYYY-MM-DD"
• "hh:mm:ss"

The first two formats are expressed in local time, the third in UTC Epoch.

static fromTime (t:Float):Date

Returns a Date from timestamp t.

@:has_untyped static now ():Date

Returns a Date representing the current local time.