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ActionScripting Basics: Basic Date Functions

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The name of my new date object is “today”, so in the Expression field I’ve typed in today= before the newDate code.

today=newDate ( ) ;

This doesn’t do much other than tell Flash that we’re going to be working with a date function by the name of today, and we’ll be referencing it in other functions. In a way it’s like creating a virtual symbol with an instance name.

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