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Peter Mortensen
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JavascriptJavaScript works with the number of milliseconds since the epoch where aswhereas most other languages work with the seconds. You could work with milliseconds but as soon as you pass a value to say phpPHP, the phpPHP native functions will probably fail. So to be sure I always use the seconds, not milliseconds.

This will give you a Unix timestamp (in seconds):

var unix = Math.round(+new Date()/1000);

This will give you the milliseconds since the epoch (not Unix timestamp):

var milliseconds = new Date().getTime();

Javascript works with the number of milliseconds since the epoch where as most other languages work with the seconds. You could work with milliseconds but as soon as you pass a value to say php, the php native functions will probably fail. So to be sure I always use the seconds, not milliseconds.

This will give you a Unix timestamp (in seconds):

var unix = Math.round(+new Date()/1000);

This will give you the milliseconds since the epoch (not Unix timestamp):

var milliseconds = new Date().getTime();

JavaScript works with the number of milliseconds since the epoch whereas most other languages work with the seconds. You could work with milliseconds but as soon as you pass a value to say PHP, the PHP native functions will probably fail. So to be sure I always use the seconds, not milliseconds.

This will give you a Unix timestamp (in seconds):

var unix = Math.round(+new Date()/1000);

This will give you the milliseconds since the epoch (not Unix timestamp):

var milliseconds = new Date().getTime();
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Daithí
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Javascript works with the number of milliseconds since the epoch where as most other languages work with the seconds. You could work with milliseconds but as soon as you pass a value to say php, the php native functions will probably fail. So to be sure I always use the seconds, not milliseconds.

This will give you a Unix timestamp (in seconds):

var unix = Math.round(+new Date()/1000);

This will give you the milliseconds since the epoch (not Unix timestamp):

var milliseconds = new Date().getTime();