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

there are npm packages that bind to the system gettimeofday() function, which returns a microsecond precision timestamp on Linux. Search for npm gettimeofday. Calling C is faster than process.hrtime()