I'm trying to figure out if 10 minutes go by, then an action happens. Right now all I have is this, I don't understand the timestamp too well. Such as 1370246236916...Where is the hour, day, year and minutes or seconds etc.

var ten_mins = new Date().getTime();
var time = data_base_time;
var time_to_ago = time - new Date().getTime()+100000;

if( time >= time_to_ago){
   //Ten minutes went by
}

I'm trying to figure out if 10 minutes go by, then an action happens. Right now all I have is this, I don't understand the timestamp too well. Such as 1370246236916...Where is the hour, day, year and minutes or seconds etc.

var ten_mins = new Date().getTime();
var time = data_base_time;
var time_to_ago = time - new Date().getTime()+100000;

if( time >= time_to_ago){
   //Ten minutes went by
}

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• date
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Share Improve this question Follow asked Jun 3, 2013 at 7:45 BrianBrian 15111 gold badge33 silver badges1414 bronze badges 1

• 2 getTime returns milliseconds since 1970-01-01, if you want 10 minutes, the constant should be 10*60*1000 = 600000 milliseconds. – Joachim Isaksson Commented Jun 3, 2013 at 7:48

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Why not use setTimeout():

window.setTimeout(function() {  
    // 10 minutes have gone by. Execute a function here.
}, 600000);

The getTime() method returns the number of milliseconds between midnight of January 1, 1970 and the specified date.

var current = new Date().getTime();
var ten_minutes_from_now = new Date().getTime() + 600000;

if(ten_minutes_from_now >= current) window.alert('Ten minutes have passed');

timeStamp event property returns the number of in milliseconds since midnight of January 1, 1970

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 07:57:16 GMT means 1370246236916 milliseconds from January 1, 1970.