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toLocaleString() Method and toString() Method
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()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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Siebel eScript Language Reference Published: 18 April 2003 |