The Date object

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The Date object

What’s the date today?

You can tell the date physically if you have a calendar around you. You can also tell the time if you have a clock. In JavaScript, we can tell the date and time with the Date object.

Here’s what it looks like:

const date = new Date()

If you console.log date, you’ll get a log that tells you four things:

1. The day of the week (like Wednesday)
2. The date today (like Jan 23 2019)
3. The time now (like 17:21:13)
4. The timezone offset (like GMT+8000 Singapore Standard Time)

Wed Jan 23 2019 17:21:13 GMT+0800 (Singapore Standard Time)

There’s more things you can do with the Date object. Let’s go through them all in the next few lessons.