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The noarg constructor for the Date class
The Date class has a constructor that takes no parameters and is described in the documentation as follows:
"Allocates a Date object and initializes it so that it represents the time at which it was allocated, measured to the nearestmillisecond."
In other words, this constructor can be used to instantiate a Date object that represents the current date and time according to the system clock.
A property named time of type long
The actual date and time information encapsulated in a Date object is apparently stored in a property named time as a long integer.
Milliseconds since the epoch
The long integer encapsulated in a Date object represents the total number of milliseconds for the encapsulated date and time, relative tothe epoch, which was Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1970.
Earlier dates are represented as negative values. Later dates are represented as positive values.
An overridden toString method
An object of the Date class has an overridden toString method that converts the value in milliseconds to a form that is more useful for a human observer, such as:
Notification Switch
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