system.date.toMillis

Description

Converts a Date object to its millisecond value elapsed since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC (GMT)

Syntax

system.date. toMillis(date )

  • Parameters

Date date - The date object to convert.

  • Returns

Long - an 8-byte integer representing the number of millisecond elapsed since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC (GMT)

  • Scope

All

Code Examples
Code Snippet
#This example will take the date Fri Aug 18 14:35:25 PDT 2017,
#and print out 1503092125000
date = system.date.getDate(2017, 7, 18)
datetime = system.date.setTime(date, 14, 35, 25)
print system.date.toMillis(datetime)