{"id":3307,"date":"2025-06-08T01:59:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T01:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2025-06-08T01:59:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T01:59:22","slug":"date-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=3307","title":{"rendered":"Date.now()"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Ask any software program engineer they usually&#8217;ll inform you that coding date logic generally is a nightmare.  Builders want to think about timezones, bizarre date defaults, and platform-specific date codecs.  The simplest option to work with dates is to cut back the date to the most straightforward format potential &#8212; normally a timestamp.  To get the quick time in integer format, you need to use <code>Date.now<\/code>:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"js\">\nconst now = Date.now(); \/\/ 1705190738870\n<\/pre>\n<p>I&#8217;ll oftentimes make use of <code>Date.now()<\/code> in my <code>console.log<\/code> statements to distinguish likewise <code>console.log<\/code> outcomes from one another.  You could possibly additionally use that date as a novel identifier for an occasion in a low-traffic atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The put up <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/davidwalsh.name\/date-now\">Date.now()<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/davidwalsh.name\">David Walsh Weblog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tkjs.us\/dwb\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0 auto\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/davidwalsh.name\/demo\/tjs_block-1.svg\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask any software program engineer they usually&#8217;ll inform you that coding date logic generally is a nightmare. Builders want to think about timezones, bizarre date defaults, and platform-specific date codecs. The simplest option to work with dates is to cut back the date to the most straightforward format potential &#8212; normally a timestamp. To get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[3129],"class_list":["post-3307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-date-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3308,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions\/3308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- This website is optimized by Airlift. Learn more: https://airlift.net. Template:. Learn more: https://airlift.net. Template: 69d9690a190636c2e0989534. Config Timestamp: 2026-04-10 21:18:02 UTC, Cached Timestamp: 2026-05-18 19:00:57 UTC -->