Question

I am trying to calculate the current second in the current month, but I’m having trouble creating a simple function that does it.

My best guess involves using getTime() – the current milliseconds since January 1 1970 – and then subtracting X, where X is the number of milliseconds up to the end of the previous month.

Can you help me think of a better way to do this?

Thank you very much for your help.

Cheers,

Answer 1

function() {
  var now = new Date().getTime(),
      monthStart = new Date();

  monthStart.setDate(1);
  monthStart.setHours(0);
  monthStart.setMinutes(0);
  monthStart.setSeconds(0);
  monthStart.setMilliseconds(0);
  return Math.floor((now - monthStart.getTime()) / 1000);
}