Unix-timestamp NPM

unix-timestamp

Tiny library to create and manipulate Unix timestamps in Javascript. (A Unix timestamp is the number of seconds elapsed since Unix epoch time, i.e. January 1 1970 00:00 UTC.)

Usage

npm install unix-timestamp

Then:

const timestamp = require('unix-timestamp');

Methods

.now([offset]) gives the current time, optionally applying an offset (see below)
.fromDate(dateOrString) gives the time from a Javascript Date object or an ISO 8601 date string
.toDate(time) correspondingly gives the date from a timestamp
.add(time, offset) applies an offset to the given time
.duration(offset) gives the offset timestamp for the given offset string

An offset can be either a number (unit: seconds) or a string with format [+|-] [{years}y] [{months}M] [{weeks}w] [{days}d] [{hours}h] [{minutes}m] [{seconds}s] [{milliseconds}ms] (for example -30s).

The actual values (in seconds) used for each unit of time in an offset string are exposed by properties .Millisecond, .Second, .Minute, .Hour, .Day, .Week, .Month (i.e. mean Gregorian month) and .Year.

About rounding

By default timestamps include decimals (fractions of a second). You can set the lib to round all returned timestamps to the second with timestamp.round = true.