setMinutes() JavaScript function to fix the minutes part of a date & time object

By using this we can set the minute from 0 to 59. Let us try to set the minutes to 20 of a date object. Here is the example

<script type="text/javascript"> 
var dt= new Date();
document.write( dt + "<br><br>");
dt.setMinutes(15);
document.write( "<br><br>" + dt );
</script>

Here is the output based on your time zone and date and time of your computer

Setting minutes to a negative value

What happens if we set the minutes value to -75? Here is the sample code , just change the line in above code to

dt.setMinutes(-75);

The output of this change is here.

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setMinutes() : update the minutes part of date object

Setting minutes to a negative value