GameSparks Cloud Code - How to get current backend time (preferably time since epoch)

Question

Hi,

I want to get current time as milliseconds to store in DynamoDB, along with some player data acquired from the client. So far create a new Event and use some of the below approaches:

```
const timeInEpoch = ${now};

const timeInEpoch = Date.now();

const timeInEpoch = new Date().getTime();
```

But it seems to me that none of the above code works, when I try the event with Test Harness, it return error result as:
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Is there a way to retrieve this information? Thanks a lot!

Accepted Answer

Hi Niles!

Here's how you can get the current epoch, in seconds and milliseconds:

```javascript
const epoch = new Date('1970-01-01T00:00:00Z');
const currentDate = new Date();

const timestamp_ms = currentDate - epoch;
const timestamp = Math.floor(timestamp_ms / 1000);

GameSparks().Logging().Info("Current timestamp, in seconds: " + timestamp);
```

GameSparks Cloud Code - How to get current backend time (preferably time since epoch)

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