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setUTCMilliseconds() Method
This method sets the UTC millisecond of a Date object to a date expressed in milliseconds relative to the UTC equivalent of the system time.
Syntax
dateVar.setUTCMilliseconds(millisecond)
Parameter Description millisecond The UTC millisecond to which dateVar should be set as a positive or negative integerReturns
Not applicable
Usage
This method sets the UTC millisecond of dateVar to millisecond. The value of dateVar becomes equivalent to the number of milliseconds from the UTC equivalent of time on the system clock. Use a positive number for later times, and a negative number for earlier times.
Example
The following example gets a number of milliseconds as input and converts it to a UTC date and time. When run at 5:36 p.m., Pacific Time, on November 22, 1999, it produced the result shown in the illustration.
function dateBtn_Click ()
{
var aDate = new Date;
var milli = 20000;
aDate.setUTCMilliseconds(milli);
var aYear = aDate.getUTCFullYear();
var aMonth = aDate.getMonth() + 1;
var aDay = aDate.getUTCDate();
var anHour = aDate.getUTCHours();
var aMinute = aDate.getUTCMinutes();
TheApplication().RaiseErrorText("The specified date is " +
aMonth +
"/" + aDay + "/" + aYear + " at " + anHour + ":" +
aMinute + ", UTC time.");
}See Also
Universal Time Functions, getUTCMilliseconds() Method, and setMilliseconds() Method
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Siebel eScript Language Reference Published: 18 April 2003 |