In this practice, I explored how to work with the JavaScript Date object. I created a new date instance, extracted specific components of the date and time, modified the date, and compared two dates to detect the New Year transition. This helped me understand how JavaScript handles date/time data and how comparisons work between two Date instances.

I created a new Date object representing the current date and time. Then I extracted individual components like year, month, date, day of the week, hour, and minute using various getter methods.

const date = new Date();

const year = date.getFullYear();
const month = date.getMonth();
const dateOfTheMonth = date.getDate();
const dayOfWeek = date.getDay();
const hour = date.getHours();
const minute = date.getMinutes();

console.log(date);
console.log(year);
console.log(month);
console.log(dateOfTheMonth);
console.log(dayOfWeek);
console.log(hour);
console.log(minute);

Tue Jul 01 2025 12:48:48 GMT+0300 (East Africa Time)
2025
6
1
2
12
48

I modified the original Date object to represent a specific point in time. January 10, 2027, at 3:30 PM.

date.setFullYear(2027);
date.setMonth(0);
date.setDate(10);
date.setHours(15);
date.setMinutes(30);

console.log(date);

Sun Jan 10 2027 15:30:14 GMT+0300 (East Africa Time)

I created two Date objects. One for the very last moment of 2024 and one for the beginning of 2025. I then compared them to simulate a New Year transition. If the second date is greater than the first (which it is), I printed a celebratory message.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

• How to create and manipulate JavaScript Date objects.
• That months are 0-based (January = 0, December = 11).
• How to compare Date instances using comparison operators.