Return current universal time expressed as milliseconds since midnight, January 1, 1970.
Syntax
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();
Example
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