Question regarding new Date ()

Dears,

This new Date () is a little bit confusing for me. We learned in the previous video, that using:

 const Eddie = new Pet ('parrot', 2, 'hawai parrot');

means creating an object, called 'Eddie' with the Pet class, invoking the constructor method. It was pretty handy when we wanted to create several objects for the pets with similar properties.

On the other hand, we used the same method to get the actual day with this:

 const today = new Date ();

My question is: 1) How we got the actual day with this? We just created a today object using the class Date's constructor method. What's going on under the hood? I think that with this new Date () we are accessing the Date's properties (like getHours, getMinutes...) and we can use them. But how can I get a value from it? The Date class looks like this?

class Date {

constructor (

this.getHours = 'calculate the hours of the day somehow'

)

}