JavaScript Core Reference - Beginning JavaScript - page 685

Method Introduced Description

setUTCHours(hours [, minutes,
seconds, milliseconds])

JavaScript 1.3 Sets the hour of the day for the

Date object according to
universal time.

setUTCMilliseconds(milliseconds) JavaScript 1.3 Sets the number of milliseconds for

the Date object according to uni-
versal time.

setUTCMinutes(mintes [, seconds,
milliseconds])

JavaScript 1.3 Sets the number of minutes for

the Date object according to
universal time.

setUTCMonth(month [, day]) JavaScript 1.3 Sets the month for the Date object

according to universal time.

setUTCSeconds() JavaScript 1.3 Sets the number of seconds for the

Date object according to universal
time.

setYear(year) JavaScript 1.0 Sets the year for the Date

object. Deprecated in favor of
setFullYear().

toGMTString() JavaScript 1.0 Converts the Date object to a string

according to Greenwich Mean
Time. Replaced by toUTCString.

toLocaleString()

JavaScript 1.0 Converts the Date object to a string

according to the local time zone.

toString() JavaScript 1.1 Converts the Date object into a

string.

toUTCString() JavaScript 1.3 Converts the Date object to a string

according to universal time.

UTC(year, month [, day, hours,
minutes, seconds, milliseconds])

JavaScript 1.0 Retrieves the number of millisec-

onds in a date since January 1 1970
00:00:00, universal time.

valueOf() JavaScript 1.1 Returns the primitive value of the

Date object.

Function
ActiveXObject functions represent a block of JavaScript code that is called on demand. Introduced in
JavaScript 1.1, a Function object is created with the Function constructor.