JavaScript getUTChours() Method: Date Object
Description
The getUTCHours() method returns the hours of given date according to universal time(UTC). The method returns the hours as an integer between 0 and 23 indicating the number of hours since midnight.
Version
Implemented in JavaScript 1.3
Syntax
getUTCHours()

Example:
The following web document getUTCHours() method returns the hour of a given date and current time according to universal time.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>JavaScript date object - getUTCHours() method example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1 style="color: red">JavaScript date object : getUTCHours() method</h1>
<hr />
<script type="text/javascript">
//This is done to make the following JavaScript code compatible to XHTML. <![CDATA[
newyear2008 = new Date("January 1, 2008 11:10:00")
hor = newyear2008.getUTCHours()
document.write("The hour of "+newyear2008+" is : "+hor+"<br />")
current_date = new Date()
chor = current_date.getUTCHours()
document.write("Current hour is : "+chor+"<br />")
//]]>
</script>
</body>
</html>
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Supported Browser
Internet Explorer 7 | Firefox 3.6 | Google Chrome 7 | Safari 5.0.1 | Opera 10 |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
See also:
JavaScript Core objects, methods, properties.
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