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

how about:

var now = new Date();
var utc_now = new Date(now.getUTCFullYear(), now.getUTCMonth(), now.getUTCDate(),  now.getUTCHours(), now.getUTCMinutes(), now.getUTCSeconds(), now.getUTCMilliseconds());
console.log('UTC: ' + utc_now) // correct UTC time but wrong timezone!
console.log('UTC (in ms): ' + utc_now.getTime())