How do I get the time in seconds from epoch in javascript?

Question

I assume I should be able to do it like so:

var date = Math.round((new Date).getTime() / 1000);
console.log(date);

However, that is logging:

301332453318

Which if I run through this convertor ( http://www.epochconverter.com/ ) it outputs the date as being:

GMT: Wed, 06 Nov 11518 03:13:03 GMT

Is it clearly not the year 11518 right now and my system time is correct so why is the Javascript time wrong - or am I doing it wrong?

Thanks, Thomas

Answer 1

Well this is weird. If I look at the time in the console it is correct, but if I highlight it and copy it for some reason chrome (or maybe OSX) is prepending the 30 onto it... WTF? Any ideas why?

In the image look at the logged time: 1332454189 (the correct time) but the 'highlighted' value (which is what I copied and pasted into the epoch convertor) for some reason has the 30 prepended onto it as evidenced by the "Search Google for '301332454189'"

Any ideas why?