JAVASCRIPT

JAVASCRIPT parse() METHOD

The parse() method in javascript takes a date string as argument and returns this date string in the number of milliseconds that has elapsed since the Epoch ie. 1 January 1970, 00:00:00.

The general format is:

Date.parse("dateString");

Example:

<script type="text/javascript">

var ms=Date.parse("April 12, 1985"); //milliseconds since the Epoch

document.write(ms);// returns the milliseconds since the Epoch

</script>

The above will output:



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