.setTime()

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Published Jun 21, 2023
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The .setTime() method sets the date and time by adding or subtracting a specified number of milliseconds to/from midnight January 1, 1970.

Syntax

myDate.setTime(millisec)

The returned value from .setTime() is a value representing the number of milliseconds since the 1st of January 1970.

Example

In the example below, the myDate is declared and then the .setTime() method is applied to return a modified time.

const myDate = new Date();
myDate.setTime(1623918645000);
console.log(myDate.toString());

This results in the following output:

Sun Jun 17 2021 12:30:45 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

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