JavaScript makes calculations based on dates and times easy by providing date objects that supply many of the needed methods.

This seventeenth modern JavaScript tutorial introduces you to the easiest way of processing all the dates and times that you need your JavaScript to handle by demonstrating how to load them into date objects where they are stored internally in a format that makes manipulating the dates really easy as the date objects provide many of the methods needed (and as we'll see in a later tutorial we can easily add the extra methods we need to handle just about anything you could ever want to do with dates).

Dates