Arguments Used with the Date Object

Before getting to the nitty-gritty of the Date object and its associated methods, let's take a second to run through the various arguments that JavaScript requires for many Date-related features. This will save me from repeating these arguments tediously later on. Table 13.1 has the details.

Table 13.1. Arguments Associated with the Date Object

Argument	What It Represents	Possible Values
Date_Object	A variable name	A Date object
yyyy	The year	Four-digit integers
yy	The year	Two-digit integers
Month	The month	The full month name from "January" to "December"
mth	The month	Integers from 0 (January) to 11 (December)
dd	The day of the month	Integers from 1 to 31
hh	The hour of the day	Integers from 0 (midnight) to 23 (11:00 PM)
mm	The minute of the hour	Integers from 0 to 59
ss	The second of the minute	Integers from 0 to 59
ms	The milliseconds of the	Integers from 0 to 999 second