<pre><code><span class="hljs-comment">//gets the number of milliseconds elapsed since January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC</span>
<span class="hljs-selector-tag">Date</span><span class="hljs-selector-class">.now</span>()
</code></pre><p>Simply Date.now() returns the number of milliseconds that has elapsed since January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC. </p>
<p>You maybe asking why January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC. January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC is an arbitrary date set by Unix engineers as a uniform/standard date for the beginning of time.</p>
<h3 id="get-day-of-the-month">Get day of the month</h3>
<pre><code><span class="hljs-built_in">new</span> <span class="hljs-type">Date</span>().getDate()
</code></pre><h3 id="get-day-of-the-week">Get Day of the week</h3>
<pre><code><span class="hljs-built_in">new</span> <span class="hljs-type">Date</span>().getDay();
</code></pre><h3 id="get-month-of-the-year">Get Month of the year</h3>
<pre><code><span class="hljs-comment">//returns month of the year zero based month+1</span>
<span class="hljs-selector-tag">new</span> <span class="hljs-selector-tag">Date</span>()<span class="hljs-selector-class">.getMonth</span>();
</code></pre>


```
//gets the number of milliseconds elapsed since January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC
Date.now()

``` 
Simply Date.now() returns the number of milliseconds that has elapsed since January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC. 

You maybe asking why January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC. January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC is an arbitrary date set by Unix engineers as a uniform/standard date for the beginning of time.

### Get day of the month

```
new Date().getDate()

``` 
### Get Day of the week


```
new Date().getDay();

``` 

### Get Month of the year

```
//returns month of the year zero based month+1
new Date().getMonth();

``` 




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