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now

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Last updated: Nov 16, 2012Version comment
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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

Time how long it takes to do some stuff
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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