Timestamps, Date.now( ) and valueOf( )

There will be times with JavaScript when you need to get a timestamp to track when something happened or how long something took.
We have two options:
Both return a timestamp but it is important to understand the differences between them.
One other alternative that I did not mention in the video is that you can use the + unary operator to convert a Date into a timestamp.
let timestamp3 = +new Date( );
let today = new Date( );
let timestamp4 = +today;

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[Ddogwildone]

Still useful 3-4 years ahead, and was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

[einatpilates]

hey Steve, thank you for your great videos, this is not obvious, and you are so relaxing with your voice!! i love your videos!!! thank you!!!

[rotrose]

Thank you for this short yet precise explanations.

[divyalathamadapuri]

Thanks for clear explanation. Can you please tell me how to get the format as - 202327032109(which means 2023(Year)-27(Date)-03(Month) -21(IST current time)-09(minutes)).Thank you!

[Spookydigy]

Professor, can I implement this into a react app? I want to track transactions

[yogeshnavathe]

how to get timestamp for date in plotting charts that are generated from dynamic sql queires

[xxdreadsaintxx]

I prolly won't get a response, but what if I needed a date in the past? How would I plug this in the function?

[vickyvj]

this was system date how to current date in javascript code

[aa-xkwp]

Hello brother, I am getting timestamp like this I want to convert it to hours and hr:mm:ss and show it in the html page. do you have any way?