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Now to come to an end in this module, there's one last built-in or global constructor function you could

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say that helps you deal with dates and that's the date object and constructor function.

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You can use date in a broad variety of ways and attached you find documentation that allows you to

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have deeper into date.

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You can for example create a new date object like this

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and what this gives you

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if I hit enter is indeed the current date and timestamp here,

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so that's the current date and time at which I'm recording this specific video here,

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this is what you get with new date.

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Now actually, this is really an object you can work with though. If we store it in a constant, then on

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this constant, so on this stored object, we get a couple of methods,

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for example we can call get date to get the day in month, 24th

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in this case, we got get day to get the day in this week and so on. So there are lots of methods that

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allow you to analyze this date, get the time for example since the beginning of time in Javascript land

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which is January 1st 1970,

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so since then, this is the time of milliseconds that has passed and this can sometimes be helpful for

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calculating differences and so on and much more,

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so there are a bunch of methods you can call to work with a date.

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You can also construct a date with new date by passing an argument to the date constructor,

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if you don't pass anything, you get the current timestamp but you can also pass in a date instead which

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Javascript then tries to parse.

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Now for one, you can pass in an existing date object,

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this would simply store that date as a new object in date2 but you can also pass in the string to describe

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a date

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and of course then Javascript will do its best to pass this as a date,

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for example I could pass in 07/11/19 and now what

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Javascript derived is July 11th 2019 from this date.

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Now again, the attached resources allow you to dig deeper and find out which formats you can use there,

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how you can also specify minutes and hours and so on and much more.

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Now these date objects can be really useful because for example if you would want to calculate the difference

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between this first date, which is today and date2 which is in July, then we can just execute date minus

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date2 and this gives us the difference in milliseconds

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and therefore if we take that difference and for example divide it by 1000 to have the difference in seconds, divide it

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by 60 to have a difference in minutes, divide it by 60 again to have the difference in hours and then by

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24, we get the difference in days since that date,

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so that's just one example of what you can do there.

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So definitely check out that date object

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also with help of the attached documentation if you need to work with dates in your application, if

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you need to store a date, run some date calculation or anything like that,

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this object has got you covered.