JavaScript Problem: Formatting Time Using the Date Object and String Padding

In this tutorial I show you a couple of tricks that make it easier to format time in a hours, minutes, seconds pattern (0000:00:00.00). The scenario we are going to tackle is that we have collected the number of milliseconds a person as spent and now we need to format it.

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[tirmey]

Nice feature! NodeJs 8 or above supports string pad. Great to some server-side formatting. But, until the date, browsers don't. :(

[MrRossss]

Why doesn't getHours() return the hours like the other methods please? What does it return ? Thanks