Date

Date (Class)

The Date class provides a basic structure for date and time related information. Date instances can be created by

  • new Date() for a specific date,
  • Date.now() to obtain information about the current time,
  • Date.fromTime() with a given timestamp or
  • Date.fromString() by parsing from a String.

There are some extra functions available in the DateTools class.

In the context of Haxe dates, a timestamp is defined as the number of milliseconds elapsed since 1st January 1970 UTC.

Supported range

Due to platform limitations, only dates in the range 1970 through 2038 are supported consistently. Some targets may support dates outside this range, depending on the OS at runtime. The Date.fromTime method will not work with timestamps outside the range on any target.

Static Members

now(): Date

Returns a Date representing the current local time.

Returns
Date
fromTime(t: Float): Date

Creates a Date from the timestamp (in milliseconds) t.

Name Type
t Float
Returns
Date
fromString(s: String): Date

Creates a Date from the formatted string s. The following formats are accepted by the function:

  • "YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss"
  • "YYYY-MM-DD"
  • "hh:mm:ss"

The first two formats expressed a date in local time. The third is a time relative to the UTC epoch.

Name Type
s String
Returns
Date

Instance Members

getTime(): Float

Returns the timestamp (in milliseconds) of this date. On cpp and neko, this function only has a second resolution, so the result will always be a multiple of 1000.0, e.g. 1454698271000.0. To obtain the current timestamp with better precision on cpp and neko, see the Sys.time API.

For measuring time differences with millisecond accuracy on all platforms, see haxe.Timer.stamp.

Returns
Float
toString(): String

Returns a string representation of this Date in the local timezone using the standard format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. See DateTools.format for other formatting rules.

Returns
String
new(year: Int, month: Int, day: Int, hour: Int, min: Int, sec: Int): Void

Creates a new date object from the given arguments.

The behaviour of a Date instance is only consistent across platforms if the the arguments describe a valid date.

  • month: 0 to 11 (note that this is zero-based)
  • day: 1 to 31
  • hour: 0 to 23
  • min: 0 to 59
  • sec: 0 to 59
Name Type
year Int
month Int
day Int
hour Int
min Int
sec Int

Private Members

mSeconds: Float