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now

Summary

Gets the current date and time.

Syntax

Date.now()

Return Value

The number of milliseconds between midnight, January 1, 1970, and the current date and time.

Examples

The following example illustrates the use of the now method.

var start = Date.now();
 var response = prompt("What is your name?", "");
 var end = Date.now();
 var elapsed = (end - start) / 1000;
 document.write("You took " + elapsed + " seconds" + " to type: " + response);

 // Output:
 // You took <seconds> seconds to type: <name>

Remarks

The getTime method returns the number of milliseconds between January 1, 1970, and a specified date.

For information about how to calculate elapsed time and compare dates, see Date and Time Calculations (Windows Scripting - JScript).

See also

Other articles

Attributions

  • Microsoft Developer Network: Article