Is there any way to get current time in nanoseconds using JavaScript?
Achieve microsecond accuracy in most browsers using:
window.performance.now()
See also:
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Performance.now()
- http://www.w3.org/TR/hr-time/
- https://caniuse.com/high-resolution-time
Building on Jeffery's answer, to get an absolute time-stamp (as the OP wanted) the code would be:
var TS = window.performance.timing.navigationStart + window.performance.now();
result is in millisecond units but is a floating-point value reportedly "accurate to one thousandth of a millisecond".
In Server side environments like Node.js you can use the following function to get time in nanosecond
function getNanoSecTime() {
var hrTime = process.hrtime();
return hrTime[0] * 1000000000 + hrTime[1];
}
Also get micro seconds in a similar way as well:
function getMicSecTime() {
var hrTime = process.hrtime();
return hrTime[0] * 1000000 + parseInt(hrTime[1] / 1000);
}