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ee.Image.date
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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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