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# Javascript Date - UTC Method

## Description:

This method takes a date and returns the number of milliseconds since midnight of January 1, 1970 according to universal time.

## Syntax:

    Date.year,month,day,[hours,[minutes,[seconds,[ms]]])

Note: Paramters in the bracket are always optional

Here is the detail of parameters:

- year : A four digit number representing the year

- month : An integer between 0 and 11 representing the month

- day : An integer between 1 and 31 representing the date

- hours : An integer between 0 and 23 representing the hour

- minutes : An integer between 0 and 59 representing the minutes

- seconds : An integer between 0 and 59 representing the seconds

- ms :An integer between 0 and 999 representing the milliseconds

## Return Value:

Number of milliseconds since midnight of January 1, 1970

## Example:

    <html>
    <head>
    <title>JavaScript UTC Method</title>
    </head>
    <body>
    <script type="text/javascript">
       var msecs = Date.UTC(2008,9,6);
       document.write( "Number of milliseconds from 1970: " + msecs );
    </script>
    </body>
    </html>

This will produce following result :

    Number of milliseconds from 1970: 1223251200000

To understand it in better way you can Try it yourself.

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