.getUTCDate()

Published Jun 12, 2023
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The .getUTCDate() returns the day of the month for the provided date according to universal time.

Syntax

myDate.getUTCDate()

The .getUTCDate() method returns the day of the month as an integer (1-31) for the provided date myDate.

Example

In the example below, the variable myDate stores the day of the month returned from a new Date object and logs the value to the console.

const myDate = new Date('2023-03-01');
console.log(myDate.getUTCDate());

This results in the following output:

1

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