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Use the getTime() method to get a UTC timestamp, e.g. new Date(). getTime() . The method returns the number of milliseconds since the Unix Epoch and always uses UTC for time representation. Calling the method from any time zone returns the same UTC timestamp.
What is the unix time stamp? The unix time stamp is a way to track time as a running total of seconds. This count starts at the Unix Epoch on January 1st, 1970 at UTC. Therefore, the unix time stamp is merely the number of seconds between a particular date and the Unix Epoch.
For timestamp with time zone, the internally stored value is always in UTC (Universal Coordinated Time, traditionally known as Greenwich Mean Time, GMT). An input value that has an explicit time zone specified is converted to UTC using the appropriate offset for that time zone.
PHP DateTime class provides an easy way to convert a date time stamp to UTC. You can convert any timezone to UTC DateTime using PHP. In the example code snippet, we will show you how to convert local date&time to UTC DateTime (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format) in PHP.
new Date().getTime();
For more information, see @James McMahon's answer.
As wizzard pointed out, the correct method is,
new Date().getTime();
or under Javascript 1.5, just
Date.now();
From the documentation,
The value returned by the getTime method is the number of milliseconds since 1 January 1970 00:00:00 UTC.
If you wanted to make a time stamp without milliseconds you can use,
Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000);
I wanted to make this an answer so the correct method is more visible.
You can compare ExpExc's and Narendra Yadala's results to the method above at http://jsfiddle.net/JamesFM/bxEJd/, and verify with http://www.unixtimestamp.com/ or by running date +%s on a Unix terminal.
You can use Date.UTC method to get the time stamp at the UTC timezone.
Usage:
var now = new Date;
var utc_timestamp = Date.UTC(now.getUTCFullYear(),now.getUTCMonth(), now.getUTCDate() ,
now.getUTCHours(), now.getUTCMinutes(), now.getUTCSeconds(), now.getUTCMilliseconds());
Live demo here http://jsfiddle.net/naryad/uU7FH/1/
"... that are independent of their timezone"
var timezone = d.getTimezoneOffset() // difference in minutes from GMT
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