How to get timestamp through eosjs in seconds?

Question

I want to get the timestamp of the block in Seconds but eosjs library returns it in an iso string format. Is there a way to receive timestamp in seconds or convert the string to seconds?

Example: What I get:

block_time: '2021-03-12T05:45:56.000'

What I want:

block_time in seconds.

Answer 1

You can pass block_time string to instantiate Date object. It contains milliseconds, so you need to divide it by 1000 to get seconds.

code:

const block_time = '2021-03-12T05:45:56.000';
const seconds = Math.floor(new Date(block_time) / 1000);
console.log(seconds);

output:

1615527956