microseconds

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

Similar packages

Other packages similar to microseconds

nanotimer

Similar to `microseconds`, `nanotimer` offers high-resolution timers but focuses on nanosecond precision. It provides a different level of granularity and includes functionality for timeouts and intervals, which `microseconds` does not.

performance-now

This package provides a function to get a timestamp with sub-millisecond precision, similar to `microseconds`. However, `performance-now` is more focused on compatibility with the performance.now() Web API, making it more suitable for cross-environment timing (Node.js and browsers).