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Return current universal time expressed as milliseconds since midnight, January 1, 1970. |
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now; // current universal time |
Return value
Returns the current universal time expressed in milliseconds since 00:00:00 on January 1, 1970 UTC.
This is directly equivalent to doing: (new Date()).getTime();
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function foo() {
var start = now;
// do some stuff
var end = now;
console("time taken to do stuff = "+(end-start)+"ms");
}
foo(); // outputs console msg showing time taken |
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