User Guide

342 ActionScript classes

Returns

Number - An integer.

Example

The following example creates a new Date object and uses getUTCMinutes() to return the

minutes value from the Date object:

var today_date:Date = new Date();

trace(today_date.getUTCMinutes());

getUTCMonth (Date.getUTCMonth method)

public getUTCMonth() : Number

Returns the month (0 [January] to 11 [December]) of the specified Date object, according to

universal time.

Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Lite 2.0

Returns

Number - An integer.

Example

The following example creates a new Date object and uses Date.getUTCMonth() and

Date.getMonth(). The value returned by Date.getUTCMonth() can differ from the value

returned by

Date.getMonth() if today's date is the first or last day of a month, depending on

the relationship between your local time zone and universal time.

var today_date:Date = new Date();

trace(today_date.getMonth()); // output based on local timezone

trace(today_date.getUTCMonth()); // output equals getMonth() plus or minus