Getting current date in milliseconds (UTC) (NO use of strings)

Question

Well, you might think that this question has already been asked, but I think it has not. The solutions I\'ve read about all had this \"jigsaw puzzle\" technique (like getU

Answer 1

This is an old question but for the sake of the new visitors here is the CORRECT answer:

Date.now();

It returns the number of milliseconds elapsed since 1 January 1970 00:00:00 UTC