How to get a microtime in Node.js?

Question

How can I get the most accurate time stamp in Node.js?

ps My version of Node.js is 0.8.X and the node-microtime extension doesn\'t work for me (crash on install)

Answer 1

now('milli'); //  120335360.999686
now('micro') ; // 120335360966.583
now('nano') ; //  120335360904333

Known that now is :

const now = (unit) => {

  const hrTime = process.hrtime();

  switch (unit) {

    case 'milli':
      return hrTime[0] * 1000 + hrTime[1] / 1000000;

    case 'micro':
      return hrTime[0] * 1000000 + hrTime[1] / 1000;

    case 'nano':
      return hrTime[0] * 1000000000 + hrTime[1];

    default:
      return now('nano');
  }

};