How to get a microtime in Node.js?

问题:

How can I get the most accurate time stamp in Node.js?

ps My version of Node.js is 0.8.X and the node-microtime extension doesn't work for me (crash on install)

回答1:

new Date().getTime()? This gives you a timestamp in milliseconds, which is the most accurate that JS will give you.

Update: As stated by vaughan, process.hrtime() is available within Node.js - its resolution are nanoseconds and therefore its much higher, also this doesn't mean it has to be more exact.

PS.: Just to be clearer, process.hrtime() returns you a tuple Array containing the current high-resolution real time in a [seconds, nanoseconds]

回答2:

In Node.js, "high resolution time" is made available via process.hrtime. It returns a array with first element the time in seconds, and second element the remaining nanoseconds.

To get current time in microseconds, do the following:

var hrTime = process.hrtime()
console.log(hrTime[0] * 1000000 + hrTime[1] / 1000)

(Thanks to itaifrenkel for pointing out an error in the conversion above.)

In modern browsers, time with microsecond precision is available as performance.now. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Performance/now for documentation.

I've made an implementation of this function for Node.js, based on process.hrtime, which is relatively difficult to use if your solely want to compute time differential between two points in a program. See http://npmjs.org/package/performance-now . Per the spec, this function reports time in milliseconds, but it's a float with sub-millisecond precision.

In Version 2.0 of this module, the reported milliseconds are relative to when the node process was started (Date.now() - (process.uptime() * 1000)). You need to add that to the result if you want a timestamp similar to Date.now(). Also note that you should bever recompute Date.now() - (process.uptime() * 1000). Both Date.now and process.uptime are highly unreliable for precise measurements.

To get current time in microseconds, you can use something like this.

var loadTimeInMS = Date.now()
var performanceNow = require("performance-now")
console.log((loadTimeInMS + performanceNow()) * 1000)

See also: Does JavaScript provide a high resolution timer?

回答3:

now('milli'); //  120335360.999686
now('micro') ; // 120335360966.583
now('nano') ; //  120335360904333

Known that now is :

const now = (unit) => {

  const hrTime = process.hrtime();

  switch (unit) {

    case 'milli':
      return hrTime[0] * 1000 + hrTime[1] / 1000000;

    case 'micro':
      return hrTime[0] * 1000000 + hrTime[1] / 1000;

    case 'nano':
      return hrTime[0] * 1000000000 + hrTime[1];

    default:
      return hrTime[0] * 1000000000 + hrTime[1];
  }

};

回答4:

There's also https://github.com/wadey/node-microtime:

> var microtime = require('microtime')
> microtime.now()
1297448895297028

回答5:

Node.js nanotimer

I wrote a wrapper library/object for node.js on top of the process.hrtime function call. It has useful functions, like timing synchronous and asynchronous tasks, specified in seconds, milliseconds, micro, or even nano, and follows the syntax of the built in javascript timer so as to be familiar.

Timer objects are also discrete, so you can have as many as you'd like, each with their own setTimeout or setInterval process running.

It's called nanotimer. Check it out!

回答6:

To work with more precision than Date.now(), but with milliseconds in float precision:

function getTimeMSFloat() {
    var hrtime = process.hrtime();
    return ( hrtime[0] * 1000000 + hrtime[1] / 1000 ) / 1000;
}

回答7:

there are npm packages that bind to the system gettimeofday() function, which returns a microsecond precision timestamp on Linux. Search for npm gettimeofday. Calling C is faster than process.hrtime()

回答8:

A rewrite to help quick understanding:

const hrtime = process.hrtime();     // [0] is seconds, [1] is nanoseconds

let nanoSeconds = (hrtime[0] * 1e9) + hrtime[1];    // 1 second is 1e9 nano seconds
console.log('nanoSeconds:  ' + nanoSeconds);
//nanoSeconds:  97760957504895

let microSeconds = parseInt(((hrtime[0] * 1e6) + (hrtime[1]) * 1e-3));
console.log('microSeconds: ' + microSeconds);
//microSeconds: 97760957504

let milliSeconds = parseInt(((hrtime[0] * 1e3) + (hrtime[1]) * 1e-6));
console.log('milliSeconds: ' + milliSeconds);
//milliSeconds: 97760957

Source: https://nodejs.org/api/process.html#process_process_hrtime_time

回答9:

better?

Number(process.hrtime().join(''))