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  • Your first statement is incorrect. Date objects in JavaScript only contain a UTC-based timestamp - which is the number of milliseconds since the Unix epoch. In other words, the value returned by .valueOf() or .getTime(). Everything else it does is computed to/from that. Commented Oct 10, 2019 at 18:08