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JavaScript really needs the powerful text processing capabilities of PERL. (Lets hope either Netscape adds them or somebody builds them.) On the other hand, JavaScript (like Java) has 21 built-in methods associated with the Date object!
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today = new Date(); // current Date and Time
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now = new Date("February 26, 1996 15:13:00"); /* sets now to date/time these notes were prepared! */
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Both Java and JavaScript store dates internally as number of elapsed milliseconds since January 1, 1970 00:00:00.
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In a Java, Date.UTC(date as bunch of numbers) and Date.parse(date as a text string) are static methods
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There are methods such as getMonth that extract the month from a date
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See the online resource for all possible methods!
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