Working with Dates

The Date object is an important type in JavaScript but is a complicated type in any language. Like the Array type, the Date type is built on top of a JavaScript object.

Dates have no literal format. As such, they must be created using the Date constructor. There are four ways to do this:

• An empty constructor creates a date with the current date and time.
• The constructor may be passed an integer representing the number of milliseconds to have passed since the beginning of January 1st, 1970.
• Supplying multiple integer parameters will specify date segments, for example:

  (year, month, day, hour, minute, second, millisecond)

  (year, month, day, hour, minute, second)

  (year, month, day, hour, minute)

  (year, month, day, hour)

  (year, month, day)

  (year, month)

  Be aware that the month is specified by the numbers 0 - 11.

• Supplying a string representation of a date:

  ISO 8601 date format ("2019-04-25" or "2019-04-25T12:00:00Z", where months, days...