# Date() constructor — Individual date and time component values

> Given at least a year and month, this form of Date() returns a Date object whose component values (year, month, day, hour, minute, second, and millisecond) all come from the following parameters.

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Given at least a year and month, this form of Date() returns a Date object whose component values (year, month, day, hour, minute, second, and millisecond) all come from the following parameters. Any missing fields are given the lowest possible value (1 for day and 0 for every other component). The parameter values are all evaluated against the local time zone, rather than UTC. {{jsxref("Date.UTC()")}} accepts similar parameters but interprets the components as UTC and returns a timestamp.

If any parameter overflows its defined bounds, it "carries over". For example, if a monthIndex greater than 11 is passed in, those months will cause the year to increment; if a minutes greater than 59 is passed in, hours will increment accordingly, etc. Therefore, new Date(1990, 12, 1) will return January 1st, 1991; new Date(2020, 5, 19, 25, 65) will return 2:05 A.M. June 20th, 2020.

Similarly, if any parameter underflows, it "borrows" from the higher positions. For example, new Date(2020, 5, 0) will return May 31st, 2020.

year : Integer value representing the year. Values from 0 to 99 map to the years 1900 to 1999. All other values are the actual year. See the example. monthIndex : Integer value representing the month, beginning with 0 for January to 11 for December. day {{optional_inline}} : Integer value representing the day of the month. Defaults to 1. hours {{optional_inline}} : Integer value between 0 and 23 representing the hour of the day. Defaults to 0. minutes {{optional_inline}} : Integer value representing the minute segment of a time. Defaults to 0. seconds {{optional_inline}} : Integer value representing the second segment of a time. Defaults to 0. milliseconds {{optional_inline}} : Integer value representing the millisecond segment of a time. Defaults to 0.

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