μs

Generate and parse microseconds.

Uses hrtime in node.js, performance.now in browsers. Falls back to Date.now() * 1000.

API

const μs = require('microseconds')

now

timestamp in microseconds

const now = μs.now()
// 1404398280599786

parse

as an object

const parsed = μs.parse(now)
// { microseconds: 786, milliseconds: 599, seconds: 0, minutes: 38, hours: 14, days: 16254 }

as a string

parsed.toString()
// "16254 days 14 hours 38 minutes 0 seconds 599 milliseconds 786 microseconds"

μs.parse(1000).toString()
// "1 millisecond"

μs.parse(1).toString()
// "1 microsecond"

μs.parse(4231002).toString()
// "4 seconds 231 milliseconds 2 microseconds"

since

const before = μs.now()
const time = μs.since(before) // time passed

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