Advanced Node.js Development

Timestamps in Node

To explore this we're going to create a new playground file, over inside of Atom we're going to make a playground folder to store this file, and inside of the playground folder we can make a new file calling it time.js. In here it will play around with time, and we'll take what we learn here into the frontend of the application in the next section.

We are no strangers to timestamps, we know they're nothing more than just integers whether positive or negative, something like 781 is a perfectly valid timestamp, so is something like minus a couple of billion or whatever any number happens to be, all valid, even 0 is a perfectly valid timestamp. Now all of these numbers, they're all relative to a certain moment in history referred ...