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Tried to search but nothing obvious showed up. What's the purpose of the 1 in '1 * new Date()'? Edit: found it. Gets the timestamp[1] 1. https://stackoverflow

by iakh 9y ago

Tried to search but nothing obvious showed up. What's the purpose of the 1 in '1 * new Date()'? Edit: found it. Gets the timestamp[1] 1. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24182317/multiplication-with-date-object-javascript https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24182317/multiplication-...

rubyfan 9y ago
Right, back to the point of saving characters/bytes at scale it's a cheaper way to getTime()
- jackmoore 9y ago
  And if you don't need to support IE8 or lower, you can use Date.now()
youngtaff 9y ago
Some do analytics tools use +new Date instead