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

I have used this function to solve the problem.

function getUTCNow()
{
    var now = new Date();
    var time = now.getTime();
    var offset = now.getTimezoneOffset();
    offset = offset * 60000;
    return time - offset;
}

• The getTime function returns the number of milliseconds elapsed since 1 January 1970 00:00:00 in the client timezone.
• getTimezoneOffset return offset in minutes between Client timezone and UTC.
• offset = offset * 60000; this operation transform minutes in miliseconds.
• subtracting the offset get the number of milliseconds elapsed since 1 January 1970 00:00:00 UTC.