---
title: "toMillis"
description: "Converts a Date object to its millisecond value elapsed since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC (GMT)"
---

# toMillis

> Converts a Date object to its millisecond value elapsed since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC (GMT)

**This function is used by Ignition's Expression language.**

## Description
## Syntax
`toMillis(date)`

- Parameters
    - Date **date** - The date to convert to epoch time.

- Results
    - int - The number of milliseconds from epoch time of the give date.

## Code Examples
```python title="Code Snippet"
// This will take the date Aug 22, 2017 at 14:35:25 PST and convert it to milliseconds from epoch time which is 1,500,767,134,000
toMillis(setTime(getDate(2017, 6, 22), 16, 45, 34))
```