get exact time in javascript

Question

How to get exact currect time in javascript? For Example when you execute the code you whoud get (2016-02-11 03:11:22:33).

Note: There is so many tutorial but none of them gives you the milliseconds of current time.

Answer 1

This function should do it :

function getTime(input) {
    var date = input ? new Date(input) : new Date();
    return {
        hours : date.getHours(),
        minutes : date.getMinutes(),
        seconds : date.getSeconds(),
        milliseconds : date.getMilliseconds()
    }
}

If I would run getTime() right now (20:52:49 200ms), I'd get an object with the following properties :

{
    hours: 20,
    minutes: 52,
    seconds: 49,
    milliseconds: 200
}

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If you prefer your output to be a string instead of an object, you could also use this function :

var getTimeString = function(input, separator) {
    var pad = function(input) {return input < 10 ? "0" + input : input;};
    var date = input ? new Date(input) : new Date();
    return [
        pad(date.getHours()),
        pad(date.getMinutes()),
        pad(date.getSeconds()),
        date.getMilliseconds()
    ].join(typeof separator !== 'undefined' ?  separator : ':' );
}

If I would run getTimeString() right now (20:52:49 200ms), I'd get this string :

20:52:49:200

See also this Fiddle.