Date - API Reference

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

`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

`getDate ():Int`

Available on Neko, Flash, macOS, Linux, HTML5, Windows

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

`getDay ():Int`

Available on Flash, HTML5

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

`getFullYear ():Int`

Available on Neko, Flash, macOS, Linux, HTML5, Windows

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

`getHours ():Int`

Available on Neko, Flash, macOS, Linux, HTML5, Windows

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

`getMinutes ():Int`

Available on Neko, Flash, macOS, Linux, HTML5, Windows

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

`getMonth ():Int`

Available on Neko, Flash, macOS, Linux, HTML5, Windows

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

`getSeconds ():Int`

Available on Neko, Flash, macOS, Linux, HTML5, Windows

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.

`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

`staticfromString (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.

`staticfromTime (t:Float):Date`

Returns a Date from timestamp t.

`staticnow ():Date`

Returns a Date representing the current local time.