How to generate timestamp unix epoch format nodejs?

Question

I am trying to send data to graphite carbon-cache process on port 2003 using

Ubuntu terminal:

echo "test.average 4 `date +%s`" | nc -q0 127.0.0.1         


        

Answer 1

If you can, I highly recommend using moment.js. To get the number of milliseconds since UNIX epoch, do

moment().valueOf()

To get the number of seconds since UNIX epoch, do

moment().unix()

You can also convert times like so:

moment('2015-07-12 14:59:23', 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss').valueOf()

I do that all the time.

To install moment.js on Node,

npm install moment

and to use it

var moment = require('moment');
moment().valueOf();

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