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

Post ECMAScript5 you can use:

Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000);

which generates epoch timestamp in seconds.