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ee.Image.date

Returns the acquisition time of an image as a Date object. This helper function is equivalent to ee.Date(image.get('system:time_start')).

Usage	Returns
`Image.date()`	Date

Argument	Type	Details
this: `image`	Image	The image whose acquisition time to return.

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Last updated 2023-10-06 UTC.

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