TypeScript Date (With Examples)

In this TypeScript tutorial, we will discuss the TypeScript Date. We will discuss how to create a date object in TypeScript. We will also discuss how to add days to date in typescript, date format in typescript, typescript date now, etc.

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TypeScript Date

The Date object represents a date and time functionality in TypeScript. We used date object to get or set the year, month and day, hour, minute, second, millisecond, etc in TypeScript.

TypeScript provides a Date library to perform an operation on Dates. Calling new Date() creates today’s Date.

Creating Date Object in TypeScript

new Date(): To create a new date object, there are four ways.

Example:

let date: Date = new Date();  
console.log(date)
//output:
2019-05-27T11:53:32.118Z

new Date(milliseconds): It creates a new date object as zero time plus milliseconds.

Example:

let date: Date = new Date(1600000000000);  
console.log(date)

//output:
2020-09-13T12:26:40.000Z

new Date(datestring): It creates a new date object from a date string.

Example:

let date: Date = new Date("2019-05-27");
console.log(date)
//output: 
2019-05-27T00:00:00.000Z

new Date ( year, month, date[, hour, minute, second, millisecond ]): It creates a new date object with a specified date and time.

Example:

let date: Date = new Date(2019,0o4,27,18,0o1,30,15); 
console.log(date) 
//output:
2019-05-27T18:01:30.015Z

We can access date components using various get methods.

Example:

let date: Date = new Date();  
console.log("Day: "+date.getDay())
console.log("Date: "+date.getDate())
console.log("Month: "+date.getMonth())
console.log("Year: "+date.getFullYear())

//output: 
Day: 1
Date: 27
Month: 4
Year: 2019

We can set date components using various set methods.

Example:

let date: Date = new Date();  
date.setDate(27)
date.setMonth(0o5)
date.setFullYear(2019)

console.log("Date: "+date.getDate())
console.log("Month: "+date.getMonth())
console.log("Year: "+date.getFullYear())

//output:
Date: 27
Month: 5
Year: 2019

You may like the following TypeScript Tutorials:

• TypeScript Enum (With Examples)
• TypeScript Dictionary (With Examples)
• TypeScript Map (Detailed Tutorial with Examples)
• TypeScript Set and Weakset (with Examples)
• Typescript hello world program for beginners

I Hope, this typescript tutorial helps to learn typescript date.