Date.toTimeString

Summary

Returns the time portion of a Date object in human readable form in American English.

Syntax

date.toTimeString()

Description

Date instances refer to a specific point in time. Calling toString will return the date formatted in a human readable form in American English. In SpiderMonkey, this consists of the date portion (day, month, and year) followed by the time portion (hours, minutes, seconds, and time zone). Sometimes it is desirable to obtain a string of the time portion; such a thing can be accomplished with the toTimeString method.

The toTimeString method is especially useful because compliant engines implementing ECMA-262 may differ in the string obtained from toString for Date objects, as the format is implementation-dependent; simple string slicing approaches may not produce consistent results across multiple engines.

Example

Example: A basic usage of toTimeString

var d = new Date(1993, 6, 28, 14, 39, 7);

println(d.toString()); // prints Wed Jul 28 1993 14:39:07 GMT-0600 (PDT)
println(d.toTimeString()); // prints 14:39:07 GMT-0600 (PDT)

See also

• Date.toLocaleTimeString
• Date.toDateString
• Date.toString