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toLocaleString() Method and toString() Method

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These methods return a string representing the date and time of a Date object based on the time zone of the user.

Syntax

dateVar.toLocaleString()
dateVar.toString()

Parameter	Description
Not applicable

Returns

A string representing the date and time of dateVar based on the time zone of the user, in the form Day Mon dd hh:mm:ss yyyy.

Usage

These methods return a string representing the date and time of a Date object based on the local time zone of the user.

Example

This example displays the local time from your computer's clock, the UTC time, and the Greenwich Mean Time. The result appears in the message box that follows the code.

var aDate = new Date();
var local = aDate.toLocaleString();
var universal = aDate.toUTCString();
var greenwich = aDate.toGMTString();
TheApplication().RaiseErrorText("Local date is " + local +
   "\nUTC date is " + universal +
   "\nGMT date is " + greenwich);

See Also

Clib.asctime() Method, Clib.gmtime() Method, Clib.localtime() Method, toGMTString() Method, and toUTCString() Method

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