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 orDate.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 UTC.
Supported range
Due to platform limitations, only dates in the range 1970 through 2038 are
supported consistently. Some targets may support dates outside this range,
depending on the OS at runtime. The Date.fromTime method will not work with
timestamps outside the range on any target.
Static methods
staticfromString(s:String):Date
Creates a Date from the formatted string s. The following formats are
accepted by the function:
"YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss""YYYY-MM-DD""hh:mm:ss"
The first two formats expressed a date in local time. The third is a time relative to the UTC epoch.
If s does not match these formats, the result is unspecified.
Constructor
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 (note that this is zero-based)
- day: 1 to 31
- hour: 0 to 23
- min: 0 to 59
- sec: 0 to 59
Methods
getDay():Int
Returns the day of the week of this Date (0-6 range, where 0 is Sunday)
in the local timezone.
getMonth():Int
Returns the month of this Date (0-11 range) in the local timezone.
Note that the month number is zero-based.
getTime():Float
Returns the timestamp (in milliseconds) of this date.
On cpp and neko, this function only has a second resolution, so the
result will always be a multiple of 1000.0, e.g. 1454698271000.0.
To obtain the current timestamp with better precision on cpp and neko,
see the Sys.time API.
For measuring time differences with millisecond accuracy on
all platforms, see haxe.Timer.stamp.
getTimezoneOffset():Int
Returns the time zone difference of this Date in the current locale
to UTC, in minutes.
Assuming the function is executed on a machine in a UTC+2 timezone,
Date.now().getTimezoneOffset() will return -120.
getUTCMonth():Int
Returns the month of this Date (0-11 range) in UTC.
Note that the month number is zero-based.
toString():String
Returns a string representation of this Date in the local timezone
using the standard format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. See DateTools.format for
other formatting rules.