Convert New Date() to timestamp in ES6

Question

I have a problem converting new Date() to timestamp in ES6. Timestamp should look like this 10012020120012.

10/01/2020 12:00:12AM should be 10012020120012

here is my code below:

let myDate = new Date().toLocaleString('en-US', {
    month: '2-digit',
    day: '2-digit',
    year: 'numeric',
  });
 myDate = myDate.split('-');
 let newDate = new Date(myDate[2], myDate[1] - 1, myDate[0]);

console.log(newDate.getTime())

Are you trying to get [`MMddYYYYHHmm`](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3552461/how-to-format-a-javascript-date) or a [Unix timestamp](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/221294/how-do-you-get-a-timestamp-in-javascript)? — VLAZ, Oct 01 '20 at 05:35
Then why create the date, then make it into another date object to get the Unix timestamp of it? Check the first link for how to format dates. For convenience you can also use a date library like date-fns, for example. — VLAZ, Oct 01 '20 at 05:39
@VLAZ. ok date-fns is fine. How would i convert that to timestamp using date-fns — Joseph, Oct 01 '20 at 05:40
@VLAZ. I can;t see anything related to what i want, `10012020120012`. Could you put the code here? Thank you — Joseph, Oct 01 '20 at 07:56
@Joseph [see this answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/30272803/) - you can just use `getMonth()`, `getDate()`, `getYear()`, `getHours()`, `getMinutes()`, `getSeconds()`. — VLAZ, Oct 01 '20 at 07:58

score -1 · Answer 1 · edited Oct 01 '20 at 05:37

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Try this, it works in my console. Split by '/' instead of '-'

let myDate = new Date().toLocaleString('en-US', {
  month: '2-digit',
  day: '2-digit',
  year: 'numeric',
});
myDate = myDate.split('/');
let newDate = new Date(myDate[2], myDate[1] - 1, myDate[0]);

console.log(newDate.getTime())

edited Oct 01 '20 at 05:37

Fullstack Guy

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answered Oct 01 '20 at 05:33

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For Example: `10/01/2020 12:00:12AM` should be `10012020120012` – Joseph Oct 01 '20 at 05:39
Do you want to create from datetime string? – Ali Raza Oct 01 '20 at 05:43
Convert `new Date()` to something like `10012020120012` – Joseph Oct 01 '20 at 05:44
Sorry I didnt downvote you. why is 1578....? Today is Oct – Joseph Oct 01 '20 at 06:42

Convert New Date() to timestamp in ES6

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