What Is the Date Object?

Static methods

Date.now()

Returns the numeric value corresponding to the current time-the number of milliseconds elapsed since January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC, with leap seconds ignored.

Date.parse()

Parses a string representation of a date and returns the number of milliseconds since 1 January, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC, with leap seconds ignored.

Date.UTC()

Accepts the same parameters as the longest form of the constructor (i.e. 2 to 7) and returns the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC, with leap seconds ignored.