How can I get date in application run by node js

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Do I have to manually run date command using child process and fetch the result from it to get the date  Is there any other way using node

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Node js is a server side JS platform build on V8 which is chrome java-script runtime    It leverages the use of java-script on servers too    You can use JS Date   function or Date class

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GMT -03 00 Example  new Date new Date  -3600 1000 3  toISOString

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NodeJS  and newer browsers  have a nice shortcut to get the current time in milliseconds    var timeInMss   Date now     Which has a performance boost compared with   var timeInMss   new Date   getTime     Because you do not need to create a new object

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You would use the javascript date object   MDN documentation for the Date object  var d   new Date

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To create a new Date object in node js  or JavaScript in general  just call it   s initializer  var d   new Date     var d   new Date dateString    var d   new Date jsonDate    var d   new Date year  month  day    var d   new Date year  month  day  hour  minute  second  millisecond     Remember that Date objects can only be instantiated by calling Date or using it as a constructor  unlike other JavaScript object types  Date objects have no literal syntax

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You do that as you would in a browser    x000D   x000D      var datetime   new Date    x000D      console log datetime   x000D   x000D   x000D

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x000D   x000D      var datetime   new Date    x000D      console log datetime toISOString   slice 0 10    x000D   x000D   x000D

[node.js] How can I get date in application run by node.js?

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