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Chapter 5: Reference Types > The Date Type
The ECMAScript Date type is based on an early version of java.util.Date from Java. As such, the Date type stores dates as the number of milliseconds that have passed since midnight on January 1, 1970 UTC (Universal Time Code). Using this data storage format, the Date type can accurately represent dates 285,616 years before or after January 1, 1970.
To create a date object, use the new operator along with the Date constructor, like this:
var now = new Date();
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When the Date constructor is used without any arguments, the created object is assigned the current date and time. To create a date based on another date or time, you must pass in the millisecond representation of the date (the number of milliseconds after midnight, January 1, 1970 UTC). To aid in this process, ECMAScript provides two methods: Date.parse() and Date.UTC().
